TallBoyz

TallBoyz is a Canadian television sketch comedy series, which premiered on September 17, 2019, on CBC Television.[1]

TallBoyz performing a live show at Apollo Cinema in Kitchener, Ontario in February 2020.

The series stars Guled Abdi, Vance Banzo, Tim Blair and Franco Nguyen, who have worked for several years in stage-based sketch comedy under the name TallBoyz II Men.[2] They were previously best known for their stage show A 6ix NNNNNN Revue,[3] which won the award for Best Comedy at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival.[4] The title of A 6ix NNNNNN Revue was an allusion to the Toronto alternative weekly newspaper Now, whose music, film, literature and theatre critics rate works on a scale of one to five N's instead of stars.[3]

The series is produced by Bruce McCulloch and Susan Cavan,[2] and was developed after McCulloch saw the troupe perform at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival in 2018.[5]

References
  1. Raju Mudhar, "A Black Lady Sketch Show and TallBoyz make sketch comedy more colourful". Toronto Star, August 17, 2019.
  2. "CBC picks up male sketch comedy series Tallboyz". Hamilton Spectator, March 28, 2019.
  3. "Fringe Review: A 6ix NNNNNN Revue". Now, July 5, 2018.
  4. "CBC TV greenlights Tallboyz II Men comedy series". Now, March 27, 2019.
  5. Eric Volmers, "Seriously funny; Tallboyz II Men silly, surreal and socially relevant". Kingston Whig-Standard, September 14, 2019.


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