Canadian Humor

À quatorze ans, Aurélie Laflamme ne se sent aucune affinité avec personne. Depuis le décès de son père, sa mère est un vrai zombie, mais la voilà soudainement qui revit (et qui va même jusqu’à porter des dessous affriolants !). Pourrait-il y avoir un lien avec Denis Beaulieu, le directeur de l’école ? (ou-ach !) Quant à sa meilleure amie, Kat, l’amour lui ramollit complètement le cerveau. Pas question de s’y laisser prendre, elle aussi ! Mais personne n’est à l’abri d’un coup de foudre… Et au milieu de ce tourbillon, Aurélie ne désire qu’une chose, trouver sa place dans l’univers.

Things aren't going Milo's way. His acting career is floundering, he got dumped, his miserable father vanished, and people keep moving into his house. He finally decides to take action - to help the only person he really likes, the autistic boy next door who's being bullied. But, well, that doesn't really go his way either.

What is it like to grow up in the wilds of northwestern Ontario . . . a place where there are no roads, no corner store, and where your neighbors have to fly in to visit you? What is it like to be “raised by a village,” including a fortune teller for a cook, and a mechanical magician of a handyman? What is it like to encounter a new cast of quirky guests every week, including a knickerbocker clad Count, a bear chasing movie star, and a tree climbing bank mogul? And what is it like when this fairy tale existence comes to an end? Ontario, 1979. Lori’s fairytale adventures started when ...

Brit Happens chronicles Mullinger’s lifetime of adventures, from his beginnings as a shy and nervous kid collecting comedy records at the neighborhood video store, to rising through the ranks of GQ magazine and meeting his personal idols Jerry Seinfeld and Paul McCartney, to imagining the possibility of another life in Canada. From the highs and lows of London to beginning anew in New Brunswick, Brit Happens tells gut-busting stories of success and failure and the unpredictable grind of stand-up comedy.

In a unique listening experience from the unforgettable writer and public speaker W.O. Mitchell, An Evening with W.O. Mitchell is a curated, abridged selection of nine remarkable pieces from Mitchell’s lifetime of public readings, read by the author himself. Featuring both a wide variety of recognizable characters from his novels as well as new, never-before-published work, the collection revives Mitchell’s distinctive voice and comedic perspective on universal subjects.

Ever since his girlfriend ended things, Thomas’s life has been on a downward spiral. A gifted medical student, he has spent his entire adulthood struggling to escape the legacy of his father, an esteemed psychiatrist who used him as a test subject when he was a boy. Thomas lived his entire childhood watched over by researchers lurking behind one-way glass. But now the tables have turned. Thomas is the researcher, and he’s convinced an experiment he has concocted will cure three homeless men of their delusional claims. Then the experiment careens out of control....

From the club that introduced such stars as Jim Carrey, Mike Bullard, Howie Mandel, Norm MacDonald, and Russell Peters, along with dozens more, The Yuk Yuk's Guide to Canadian Stand-Up is guaranteed to make milk come out of your nose. Mark Breslin - founder of Yuk Yuk's, the largest chain of comedy clubs in North America, and the initial force behind XM Satellite Radio Canada's comedy channel - narrates the past, present and future of Canadian comedy.

Flat Stanley goes north! Stanley Lambchop and his family are in British Columbia, Canada, for some skiing and winter fun. But when Stanley and his new friend Nick go snowboarding - with Stanley as the snowboard, of course - they take a midair tumble just as the wind picks up...and find themselves floating in an amazing Canadian cross-country journey that might just be Stanley's wildest adventure yet!

Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world—including a handsome Israeli, an endearing fellow Canadian, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers—are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task. Meanwhile Kevin, Amber’s boyfriend of fourteen years, was content going nowhere until Amber left him—and their hydroponic weed business—behind.

Les pensées pourrîtes sont nées au fil du temps, de l’observation désespérée de nos contemporains persuadés d’être des génies, ce qui qui s’avère peu fréquent dans la réalité. Le premier risque que vous prenez en lisant ces pensées est de vous reconnaître et d’en rire jaune comme la couleur de vos yeux, un lendemain de nuit chaude.

La solitude à deux, tel était le rêve d'Emile et de Juliette. Une maison au fond des bois pour y finir leurs jours, l'un près de l'autre. Etrangement, cette parfaite thébaïde comportait un voisin. Un nommé Palamède Bernardin, qui d'abord est venu se présenter, puis a pris l'habitude de s'incruster chez eux chaque après-midi, de quatre à six heures. Sans dire un mot, ou presque. Et cette présence absurde va peu à peu devenir plus dérangeante pour le couple que toutes les foules du monde.

Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have made a good life for themselves in Toronto, but their landlord has just jacked up the rent of their family-run nail salon, Sunshine Nails, and it’s way more than they can afford. When Take Ten, a glamorous chain offering a more luxurious salon experience, moves into the neighborhood, the Tran family is terrified of losing their business—and the community they’ve built around them.

Building on the bestselling success of The Yuk Yuk’s Guide to Canadian Stand-Up, this new box set will feature tremendous routines from more of Canada’s most hilarious stand-up comedians such as Ron James, Scott Thompson, Jessica Holmes and Jon Dore. The set will also feature the stand-up comics whom Mark Breslin refers to as the “road warriors,” comedians who constantly criss-cross the country perfecting their craft and performing night after night in clubs from coast to coast.

Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal desert of the soul, an admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a 3,000-word sentence in defense of his passion, an aging porn star dons a dinosaur costume to film the sex scene of a lifetime, and Leonard Cohen shills for Subway: these mercurial and wildly varied stories explode the conventions of short fiction.

Canadian Detectives, part of the police force or private investigators, are in pursuit of truth and justice. They navigate the twists and ugliness of their cases and in the end, they get more than they bargained for – they also lose their hearts. A Suitable Epitaph introduces the Canadian Lieutenant Leah Mackay and her team while solving the case of Klavdiya’s murder. Klavdiya dreamed of money and love. Her dreams died with her under a merciless rain. Leah, a Canadian detective with empathetic skills, and her team engage in a tedious race to find the culprit. Leah is able to read ...

Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small-chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged 5-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter. In the tight grip of new corporate owners, Stevie battles corporate’s “restructuring” to save her kitchen.

Lucie nage dans le bonheur depuis que ses pets sentent bon. Mais, une nuit, des ratons morons s’emparent de son jardin de roses pour y construire des condos! Lucie va se battre et faire comprendre aux méchants envahisseurs que c’est pas une bonne idée de mettre une mouffette en colère.

In the labyrinthian arteries of Toronto, an unlikely trio unites to swindle millions from a powerful pharmaceutical corporation. A fraudulent sexual assault case against her college professor endowed Grace with a hefty settlement and her face in the paper. Unfortunately, her newfound visibility has attracted the attention of more than just her sympathetic neighbors. With mysterious knowledge of her criminal past, a shady private detective and his autistic assailant extort Grace into joining their latest scheme: luring a billion-dollar pharmaceutical corporation into a sexual harassment ...

Faire partie d’une famille nombreuse, c’est toute une aventure ! Du moins, c’est ce que croit Jade, qui a… six frères et sœurs ! Entre les cris, le bruit et le chaos ambiant, pas facile de trouver un peu de tranquillité dans la maison. Trop souvent, la jeune fille a plutôt l’impression de vivre dans un zoo. Quand les parents annoncent que la famille partira pour la première fois en vacances au bord de la mer, l’excitation est à son comble. Mais les enfants Métivier sont loin de se douter qu’ils ne sont pas au bout de leurs surprises.

Madame Isabelle est une enseignante un peu magicienne. Dans sa classe, chaque élève peut vivre une aventure dans la peau du personnage de son choix. Justine, elle, rêve de devenir chevalière. Sa mission : délivrer la comtesse Bulles-de-Bain de la tour du Marais Moisi ! Avec l’aide de son amie Mélodie la bouffonne, Justine affronte dragon, loup et sortilège. Il faut être prêt à surmonter les embûches pour réaliser ses rêves. Mais l’aventure en vaut la peine, surtout lorsqu’on est entouré de bons amis !