Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

CODCO

Index CODCO

CODCO was a Canadian comedy troupe from Newfoundland, best known for a sketch comedy series which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1992. [1]

65 relations: Africa, Andy Jones (comedian), Anne Murray, Anne of Green Gables, Barbara Frum, Barbara Walters, Beothuk, Boarding house, Body image, Bruce Cockburn, Bulimia nervosa, Canada, Canadians, Catholic Church, Cathy Jones, CBC Television, Claude J. Summers, Cleis Press, Cod, Drag (clothing), Gay, Greg Malone (actor), Greg Thomey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Leonard Cohen, Loyola Hearn, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Walsh (actress), Metrobus Transit, Mi'kmaq, Michael Jones (writer), Mitsou, Mount Cashel Orphanage, Music video, National Film Board of Canada, New Democratic Party, Newfie, Newfoundland and Labrador, Peep Show (Canadian TV series), Philadelphia, Prince Edward Island, Psychiatric hospital, Racism, Rick Mercer, Robert Joy, Satire, Sketch comedy, Soap opera, ..., St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Surreal humour, Tammy Faye Messner, The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, The Globe and Mail, The Kids in the Hall, The S and M Comic Book, The Telegram, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Tommy Sexton, Toronto, Toronto Dance Theatre, Wake (ceremony), Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Wonderful Grand Band. Expand index (15 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

New!!: CODCO and Africa · See more »

Andy Jones (comedian)

Andrew Jordan "Andy" Jones (born January 15, 1948) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, and a former member of CODCO.

New!!: CODCO and Andy Jones (comedian) · See more »

Anne Murray

Morna Anne Murray (born June 20, 1945), known professionally as Anne Murray, is a Canadian singer in pop, country, and adult contemporary music whose albums have sold over 55 million copies worldwide.

New!!: CODCO and Anne Murray · See more »

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery).

New!!: CODCO and Anne of Green Gables · See more »

Barbara Frum

Barbara Frum, OC (September 8, 1937 – March 26, 1992) was an American-born Canadian radio and television journalist, acclaimed for her interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

New!!: CODCO and Barbara Frum · See more »

Barbara Walters

Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality.

New!!: CODCO and Barbara Walters · See more »

Beothuk

The Beothuk (or; also spelled Beothuck) were an indigenous people based on the island of Newfoundland.

New!!: CODCO and Beothuk · See more »

Boarding house

A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, and years.

New!!: CODCO and Boarding house · See more »

Body image

Body image is a person's perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body.

New!!: CODCO and Body image · See more »

Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist.

New!!: CODCO and Bruce Cockburn · See more »

Bulimia nervosa

Bulimia nervosa, also known as simply bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging.

New!!: CODCO and Bulimia nervosa · See more »

Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

New!!: CODCO and Canada · See more »

Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

New!!: CODCO and Canadians · See more »

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

New!!: CODCO and Catholic Church · See more »

Cathy Jones

Catherine Theresa Mary Andrea "Cathy" Jones (born April 6, 1955, in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian actress, comedian and writer.

New!!: CODCO and Cathy Jones · See more »

CBC Television

CBC Television (also known as simply "CBC") is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Headquartered at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.

New!!: CODCO and CBC Television · See more »

Claude J. Summers

Claude J. Summers (born 1944) is an American literary scholar, and the William E. Stirton Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

New!!: CODCO and Claude J. Summers · See more »

Cleis Press

Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights.

New!!: CODCO and Cleis Press · See more »

Cod

Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.

New!!: CODCO and Cod · See more »

Drag (clothing)

The slang term "drag" refers to the wearing of clothing of the opposite sex, and may be used as a noun as in the expression in drag, or as an adjective as in drag show.

New!!: CODCO and Drag (clothing) · See more »

Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

New!!: CODCO and Gay · See more »

Greg Malone (actor)

David Gregory "Greg" Malone (born October 19, 1948 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian impressionist and actor.

New!!: CODCO and Greg Malone (actor) · See more »

Greg Thomey

Greg Thomey (born May 8, 1961) is Canadian comedian, actor and playwright and a founding member of the long-running television program This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

New!!: CODCO and Greg Thomey · See more »

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

New!!: CODCO and Halifax, Nova Scotia · See more »

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and over time acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

New!!: CODCO and HIV · See more »

HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

New!!: CODCO and HIV/AIDS · See more »

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

New!!: CODCO and Leonard Cohen · See more »

Loyola Hearn

Loyola Hearn, (born March 25, 1943) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician.

New!!: CODCO and Loyola Hearn · See more »

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

New!!: CODCO and Margaret Thatcher · See more »

Mary Walsh (actress)

Mary Cynthia Walsh (born May 13, 1952) is a Canadian actress, comedian and social activist.

New!!: CODCO and Mary Walsh (actress) · See more »

Metrobus Transit

Metrobus is a public transport system owned by the City of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

New!!: CODCO and Metrobus Transit · See more »

Mi'kmaq

The Mi'kmaq or Mi'gmaq (also Micmac, L'nu, Mi'kmaw or Mi'gmaw) are a First Nations people indigenous to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as the northeastern region of Maine.

New!!: CODCO and Mi'kmaq · See more »

Michael Jones (writer)

Michael Jones (1944Wyndham Wise, Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. University of Toronto Press, 2015. Entry "Jones, Mike, Andy and Cathy".- March 14, 2018) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter based in Newfoundland.

New!!: CODCO and Michael Jones (writer) · See more »

Mitsou

Mitsou Annie Marie Gélinas (born September 1, 1970 in Loretteville, Quebec) is a Canadian pop singer, businesswoman, television and radio host, and actress.

New!!: CODCO and Mitsou · See more »

Mount Cashel Orphanage

The Mount Cashel Orphanage was an orphanage that was operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

New!!: CODCO and Mount Cashel Orphanage · See more »

Music video

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

New!!: CODCO and Music video · See more »

National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (or simply National Film Board or NFB) (French: Office national du film du Canada, or ONF) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.

New!!: CODCO and National Film Board of Canada · See more »

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a social democraticThe party is widely described as social democratic.

New!!: CODCO and New Democratic Party · See more »

Newfie

Newfie (also Newf or sometimes Newfy) is a colloquial term used in Canada for someone who is from Newfoundland.

New!!: CODCO and Newfie · See more »

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.

New!!: CODCO and Newfoundland and Labrador · See more »

Peep Show (Canadian TV series)

Peep Show was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1975 and 1976.

New!!: CODCO and Peep Show (Canadian TV series) · See more »

Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

New!!: CODCO and Philadelphia · See more »

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands.

New!!: CODCO and Prince Edward Island · See more »

Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, mental health units, mental asylums or simply asylums, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

New!!: CODCO and Psychiatric hospital · See more »

Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

New!!: CODCO and Racism · See more »

Rick Mercer

Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer (born October 17, 1969) is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist and author.

New!!: CODCO and Rick Mercer · See more »

Robert Joy

Robert Joy (born August 17, 1951) is a Canadian actor.

New!!: CODCO and Robert Joy · See more »

Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

New!!: CODCO and Satire · See more »

Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

New!!: CODCO and Sketch comedy · See more »

Soap opera

A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.

New!!: CODCO and Soap opera · See more »

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

St.

New!!: CODCO and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador · See more »

Surreal humour

Surreal humour (also known as absurdist humour), or surreal comedy, is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical.

New!!: CODCO and Surreal humour · See more »

Tammy Faye Messner

Tamara Faye "Tammy" Messner (née LaValley; March 7, 1942July 20, 2007), formerly Tammy Faye Bakker, was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality.

New!!: CODCO and Tammy Faye Messner · See more »

The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood

The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood is a surreal Canadian comedy film, released in 1986.

New!!: CODCO and The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood · See more »

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

New!!: CODCO and The Globe and Mail · See more »

The Kids in the Hall

The Kids in the Hall is a Canadian sketch comedy troupe formed in 1984, consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson.

New!!: CODCO and The Kids in the Hall · See more »

The S and M Comic Book

The S and M Comic Book was a Canadian series of four sketch comedy specials, that aired on CBC Television in 1985 and 1986.

New!!: CODCO and The S and M Comic Book · See more »

The Telegram

The Telegram is a daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays (as The Weekend Telegram) in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

New!!: CODCO and The Telegram · See more »

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

This Hour Has 22 Minutes (commonly shortened to 22 Minutes since 2009) is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television.

New!!: CODCO and This Hour Has 22 Minutes · See more »

Tommy Sexton

Thomas "Tommy" Sexton (July 3, 1957 – December 13, 1993) was a Canadian comedian.

New!!: CODCO and Tommy Sexton · See more »

Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

New!!: CODCO and Toronto · See more »

Toronto Dance Theatre

The Toronto Dance Theatre is a Canadian modern dance company based in Toronto, Ontario.

New!!: CODCO and Toronto Dance Theatre · See more »

Wake (ceremony)

A wake is a social gathering associated with death, usually held before a funeral.

New!!: CODCO and Wake (ceremony) · See more »

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, based in Waterloo, Ontario, is a publisher of scholarly writing and is part of Wilfrid Laurier University.

New!!: CODCO and Wilfrid Laurier University Press · See more »

Wonderful Grand Band

The Wonderful Grand Band is a Canadian music and comedy group formed in 1978 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

New!!: CODCO and Wonderful Grand Band · See more »

Redirects here:

Codco.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODCO

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »