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Media ReleaseDate: April 18, 2007 New Director for Humber School of ComedyTORONTO – Joe Kertes, dean, School of Creative & Performing Arts, Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Clark as director of the Humber School of Comedy. The appointment is effective August 2007. Andrew Clark has taught a course in the history of comedy (Aristophanes to Lenny Bruce) at Humber since 2001. He began his career in the early 1990s as a comedy critic at eye WEEKLY and became Canada’s first full-time comedy columnist. His first book, Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy, was a history and examination of Canada's comic tradition. Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson dubbed Clark "the best chronicler of Canadian comedy" in his book Star-Spangled Canadians. Clark also wrote the three-part NFB documentary series, The Next Big Thing. Shot over an unprecedented 18 month period, in noisy college cafeterias, smoky Toronto backrooms, Los Angeles nightclubs and at Montreal's Just For Laughs, the world's largest comedy festival, The Next Big Thing tracks the budding careers of six young stand-up comedians. It aired on TVOntario and the Biography Channel in the United States. Clark is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. His last book, A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle, was nominated for the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-fiction Prize, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and the Governor General's Award for Literary Non-fiction. During his career, Clark has written for such publications as The Toronto Star, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Globe and Mail, and Saturday Night and was a senior writer for Maclean's Magazine. He is a contributing editor for The Walrus Magazine. Humber’s two-year Comedy Writing & Performance Program is the only one of its kind in North America – in fact, the only one of its kind anywhere. With well-established working relationships with both Yuk Yuk’s International and Second City, the program is aimed at those who are serious about funny business and the business of being funny. Currently, there are 111 students enrolled in the program. -30- Contact:
Madeleine Matte
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