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ABOUT SHORTWEIRD RADIO
Marcel St. Pierre is known primarily as an improvisor, but one of his first loves is sketch comedy. Back in 2003, he put together a dream team of collaborators for a series of writing and recording sessions at a studio in the north end of Toronto.
Among them were a dozen Canadian Comedy Award winners and nominees, people like Jessica Holmes (Air Farce), Scott Yaphe (YTV) Nile Seguin (JFL) Kerry Griffin (Second City) and Tabetha Wells (Second City). The result of those sessions was a sketch comedy double album entitled “Got A Dime?”
It was immediately hailed as “filled with treasures” by NOW Magazine‘s Glenn Sumi, featuring a “who’s who” of the Toronto comedy scene”. The original 26-track CD has long been out of print, and was only made available as a physical copy to the audience members at the epic Three Nights Of Nonsense launch party held at The Second City‘s Tim Sim’s Playhouse in October of 2003. The original album itself was never meant for wide release, but as a demo to pitch an ensemble radio show to the CBC, something akin to The National Lampoon Radio Hour. And though potential partners like Air Farce and The Second City expressed interest in collaborating, in the end an actual Shortweird Radio Show was not meant to be.
But the best of those sketches have been restored, resequenced and rereleased on the 2019 release Less Is More. The 2020 follow-up album Wall & Couch features the last few unreleased tracks from the original 2003 sessions, as well as new material written and recorded since by St. Pierre and auxiliary ’13th Beatle’, Michael Frolick.
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Shortweird Radio is an ongoing rotating collective created, curated and produced by Marcel St. Pierre and has to date featured the work and collaboration of Sean Fisher, Kerry Griffin, Jessica Holmes, Scott McCrickard, Ginette Mohr, Rob Nardecchia, Jamillah Ross, Dave Tomlinson, Lex Vaughn, Tabetha Wells, Scott Yaphe and Mike Frolick.