TallBoyz is a Canadian television sketch comedy troupe best known for their 2019-2022 CBC Television sketch comedy series.[1] The troupe members are 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 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]
Television series
editThe group's television 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]
In March 2022, the series began airing in the U.S on Fuse.[6]
Tallboyz is the winner of four Canadian Screen Awards (CSAs) including Best Sketch Comedy Program or Series.
Season 1
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "What's it Gonna Be, Boys?" | Unknown | Unknown | September 17, 2019 |
| 2 | 2 | "Clap Your Hands, Everybody" | Unknown | Unknown | September 24, 2019 |
| 3 | 3 | "Mind the Mints" | Unknown | Unknown | October 1, 2019 |
| 4 | 4 | "Suck it Up and Go to Mars" | Unknown | Unknown | October 8, 2019 |
| 5 | 5 | "Wow, Are These Insoles?" | Unknown | Unknown | October 15, 2019 |
| 6 | 6 | "Under Caricature Clouds" | Unknown | Unknown | October 22, 2019 |
| 7 | 7 | "Hoop Hoop Hooray!" | Unknown | Unknown | October 29, 2019 |
| 8 | 8 | "Fare is Fair" | Unknown | Unknown | November 5, 2019 |
Season 2
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | "You're the Dads Now!" | Unknown | Unknown | February 16, 2021 |
| 10 | 2 | "Refreshingly Not Racist" | Unknown | Unknown | February 23, 2021 |
| 11 | 3 | "Poetry in Falsetto" | Unknown | Unknown | March 2, 2021 |
| 12 | 4 | "Why is He Blowing Me Kisses?" | Unknown | Unknown | March 9, 2021 |
| 13 | 5 | "Leave the Duckies and Go" | Unknown | Unknown | March 16, 2021 |
| 14 | 6 | "All the Focus is on the Diamonds" | Unknown | Unknown | March 23, 2021 |
| 15 | 7 | "I Rank Velvet #1" | Unknown | Unknown | March 30, 2021 |
| 16 | 8 | "Who's Guarding the Angel?" | Unknown | Unknown | April 6, 2021 |
Season 3
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | "Don't Swear in Front of the Song" | Unknown | Unknown | January 25, 2022 |
| 18 | 2 | "I Don't Trust the Cloud" | Unknown | Unknown | February 1, 2022 |
| 19 | 3 | "It's Hard Being Precocious" | Unknown | Unknown | February 22, 2022 |
| 20 | 4 | "Jesus Was a Homeless Baby Too" | Unknown | Unknown | March 1, 2022 |
| 21 | 5 | "You Always Pick Scissors" | Unknown | Unknown | March 8, 2022 |
| 22 | 6 | "Can You Keep Your Wishing Down?" | Unknown | Unknown | March 15, 2022 |
| 23 | 7 | "I've Got This Foot Thing" | Unknown | Unknown | March 22, 2022 |
| 24 | 8 | "Papa You Are My Dad" | Unknown | Unknown | March 29, 2022 |
References
edit- ^ Raju Mudhar, "A Black Lady Sketch Show and TallBoyz make sketch comedy more colourful". Toronto Star, August 17, 2019.
- ^ a b "CBC picks up male sketch comedy series Tallboyz". Hamilton Spectator, March 28, 2019.
- ^ a b "Fringe Review: A 6ix NNNNNN Revue". Now, July 5, 2018.
- ^ "CBC TV greenlights Tallboyz II Men comedy series". Now, March 27, 2019.
- ^ Eric Volmers, "Seriously funny; Tallboyz II Men silly, surreal and socially relevant". Kingston Whig-Standard, September 14, 2019.
- ^ "AMIDST UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH, LATINO-OWNED FUSE MEDIA ENTERS UPFRONT WITH NEW LAUNCHES, BRAND OPPORTUNITIES AND VIBRANT ENTERTAINMENT TO EMPOWER DIVERSE YOUNG VOICES". Retrieved 2022-09-19.
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