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ABOUT SHORTWEIRD RADIO
Although best known as an improviser, Marcel St. Pierre has always counted sketch comedy among his first loves. 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 (Just For Laughs), 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 album was never meant for wide release; it was created as a demo for an ensemble radio show for CBC Radio, something akin to The National Lampoon Radio Hour. Potential partners like Air Farce and The Second City expressed interest in collaborating to make it a reality, but in the end an actual Shortweird Radio Show was not meant to be. The Got A Dime? album has since become a rare artifact; only 100 physical copies were produced and made available to audience members at the epic Three Nights Of Nonsense launch party held at The Second City‘s Tim Sims Playhouse in October of 2003.
But the best of those sketches were restored, re-sequenced 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 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.