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I was on the My First Sketch podcast! In this episode I chatted with host Josh Higham all about my journey with comedy, how I connected with The Chicks of Big Chick Energy and a bunch of other really cool things! Listen above, or download wherever you get your podcasts!

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onVIVA.tv was created with the mission to showcase and highlight Canadian-based emerging artists, producers, and content creators

Toronto, ON – September 8, 2022

The official new season at onVIVA.tv, a Canadian-based video entertainment network showcasing emerging artists, producers and content creators’ original live broadcasts and video-on-demand programming, has been announced for September 15^th, 2022, and will feature featuring the CANCOM Comedy Content Creator Grant award winners Business Inc., Emily Decloux, inDigE-Girl Comedy, and more. 

onVIVA was founded and created to help emerging, independent artists, producers, and creators with a Canadian-based direct to consumer video network with no algorithms or other creator videos to clutter or compete with their video broadcasts. At onVIVA, each artist is featured with their own channel with all live broadcasts and video productions showcasing only the artist’s channel and content. Audiences can find all featured artists and video productions easily at onviva.tv – and all for free. 

“Through our partnership with The Foundation for Canadian Comedy (CANCOM) we are honoured to deliver the first ever showcase of Canadian-based comedy productions to be awarded grants from CANCOM,” states Michael J. O’Farrell, Co-founder and CEO at onVIVA. “The shows and videos created by these very talented CANCOM grant award winners are amazingly funny, witty and will have all audiences enjoy a good laugh. Sit back, go to onviva.tv and enjoy!”

“The inaugural CANCOM Comedy Content Creation Grants were the first of their kind in Canadian history. Comedians from across the country could apply for funding as comedy artists for the work that is specific to their craft. CANCOM is proud to announce the recipients from last Winter on onviva.tv, one of the sponsors, and is preparing to launch another window for grant applications this Fall.” said Adam Growe, Board Director at The Foundation for Canadian Comedy (CANCOM).

Business Inc. is an absurd workplace comedy about five immoral characters who create a corrupt one-stop-shop for any and all business needs. A situation comedy, a sketch show, and an anthology all wrapped up in one. Created by Simpsons writer David Cryan, his best friends Torray Green and Kimberley Wells, and filmed during the height of the pandemic. It stars some of Toronto’s best up-and-coming diverse actors, dogs, and comedians such as Bree Ali and Tik Tok sensation Anesti Danelis.

“I think Business Inc offers the audience a much-needed comedic escape for 15 minutes an episode. The real world can seem so serious, and this show is the opposite.” said Kimberley Wells, Director and Co-Creator. “The tone is very tongue-in-cheek, absurd, each episode is jam-packed with jokes that benefit from repeat viewings. It’s fun. And it showcases the best of what Toronto has to offer as far as talent and diversity. We’re proud we were able to make such an ambitious and unique project with limited resources. And that ultimately comes down to all the incredible people we had working on it.”

Emily Decloux is a comedic artist from Toronto. A graduate of the Second City Conservatory program, Emily is 1/5th of the comedy sketch troupe Big Chick Energy Sketch, and 1/2 of the comedy video duo Pineapple Skeleton. Emily has a long history of producing music, including the score for the feature film she produced, Impossible Horror, and the radio play podcast VRMP Radio Presents: The Five People You Meet In Hell. Take Your Life More Seriously is Emily’s first comedic music album.

inDigE-Girl Comedy are sketches based on Indigenous perspectives and their relations to the land, the animals, their culture and the Indigenous experience traversing through colonial systems. Each sketch takes on elements of Anishinabe and Oneida cultures through a political and pop culture lens. Aimed to increase the visibility of Indigenous women in Comedy, IndigE-girl Comedy highlights some of the brightest female voices in Comedy to share in the laughter with their community. This sketch comedy troupe shares Indigenous stories and perspectives through humorous characters, animals and Indigenous experiences that battle negative stereotypes and support the diversifying the comedian persona to include female Indigenous Comedians.

More CANCOM grant award winning artists and productions coming to onVIVA from Joel Buxton and Tom Hearn will be showcased during the Fall Season and beyond.

Audiences everywhere can enjoy onVIVA from the comfort of their home PCs or take onVIVA anywhere on their smartphones, tablet, PCs and laptops.

onVIVA is a member of the Canadian Musicians Cooperative, SOCAN and The Foundation for Canadian Comedy.

For media interviews and inquiries, please contact:

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amira@projectfourpr.com
647-865-1804

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GODDAMNIT I AM FRIGGIN GROUCHY TODAY. UGH. And that is what this whole episode is ABOUT DANGIT. AGH.

Remember how I said I was going to lean into my feelings more? Even if they were GARBAGE LIKE MY FEELINGS TODAY? WELL. FRICK. I’m fricking DOING IT. And bringing you along for the flip floppin’ journey OH HECK.

If you aren’t familiar with the hero’s journey, basically it’s like… you are the hero of your own journey. When you are working towards accomplishing a thing, you learn skills, you explore those skills, you try to figure out what the FRICK you are doing with them, and then something happens that brings everything to a grinding HAULT. And you have to do some stupid frigging deep introspective dumb work to figure out who the heck you are and why your journey is important and GAH. And then it leads to a decision which ultimately leads to the transformation of your “character” to get you to the final result of whatever you’re trying to achieve.

Go watch any superhero movie, you’ll see it all play out in real time in front of your eyeballs.

In fact, most stories follow this arc.

AGGGGHHH. ANYWAY.

I am in the stupid dark night of the soul part where i’m like… “AM I EVEN GOOD AT THIS? AM I EVEN FUNNY? HAVE I LOST IT ALL DURING THIS 2 YEAR ISOLATION OR WHAT???”

Which I really hope means that by the time I get to the next episode, I”m in the decision part of the story. Or better yet, the transformation part.

The problem is, I just have no clue what decision I need to make in order to get there. WHAT HAS TO CHANGE? Ohhhh I weep. I weep.

Creativity… so cool, man.

Anyway.

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If you ever get stuck with your creative projects, maybe it’s because you’re only working on one at any given time! AHHH! MAYBE THAT’S MEEE!

In this episode I get deep with ya about wtf is going on with my comedy album this week, why I think I might have creative tunnel vision, and I have literally no solutions for this problem this week, other than to just have more than one creative project going at a time.

I guess this is also a creative project! Right here right now!

What do you do to get unstuck?!?!?! How do you smash through creative blocks?!?! TELL MEEEE!

• A few things I mentioned in this episode:
• Impossible Horror: https://impossiblehorror.com
• My sketches: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTnZ1XLLlTt0rPv1S_qmnfI5KbRUugbS1
• Last week’s episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlj9qtj4RZ4

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This week I realized that I have been resisting my creativity by FORCING MYSELF TO BE CREATIVE. What a world. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!

Join me on this harrowing journey of self-discovery… will I have a song for you to hear at the end of this? MAYBE! But you’ll have to stay tuned to find out!

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The more I analyze the idea that I’ve had too much therapy, the more the theory makes sense.

BECAUSE I CAN’T STOP OVERANALYZING EVERYTHING!

This week I’m talking about how I can’t properly cry anymore, because I’ve caught myself in a looped behaviour that analyzes WHY I feel like I want to cry, or feel angry, or anything, so that I can never just BE the thing and enjoy my emotions, good or bad or whatever.

I ALSO share with you, a fun experiment I’m doing to stop this endless analytical cycle, I’m writing a song every day, and I’m not writing the lyrics down, AND whatever I start singing about, I have to continue with, even if I’m like “this is a stupid idea”. Because that’s the stupid overanalysis that is stopping me from being creative.

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I’ve decided to start writing a song every day. I can’t promise a music video every day, but I can definitely promise a song a day! And Perhaps more dancing gorillas? TBD!

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There’s a word for control freaks like me. Control Troll. That’s two words. And I’m KEEPING IT.

Today on Creativity Is Cool I spent a very long time describing why I believe my nightmares are being haunted by a ghost in my new apartment, my plan to get rid of said ghost, and also the fact that it’s just an allegory for my creative life at this moment. THE TROLL OF CONTROL is telling me to STOP BEING SO SILLY ALL THE TIME. And yet, that’s exactly what I need to be doing.

Join me this week as I rationalize my external fears, with my internal fears. Also, a very short new apartment tour!

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