3rd Canadian Comedy Awards explained

3rd Canadian Comedy Awards
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Country:	Canada
Presenter:	Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence
Host:	Brent Butt
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Most Wins:	Made in Canada (4)
Most Nominations:	Television: Made in Canada (8) Film: Last Wedding and Rare Birds (4)
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The 3rd Canadian Comedy Awards, presented by the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence (CCFE), honoured the best live, television, and film comedy of 2001 and was held on 4 April 2002 at The Docks in Toronto, Ontario. The ceremony was hosted by Brent Butt. This was the first year that the ceremony was not televised, and the first year that no special awards were given.

Canadian Comedy Awards, also known as Beavers, were awarded in 19 categories. Winners were picked by members of ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists), the Writers Guild of Canada, the Directors Guild of Canada, and the Comedy Association.

The TV series Made in Canada led with eight nominations followed by the film Last Wedding with five. Made in Canada won four Beavers, two of which went to director Henry Sarwer-Foner. Also winning two Beavers were Janet van de Graaf for best female improviser and best female TV performance in History Bites, Bob Martin for best male improviser and best writing for an episode of Made in Canada, and Rick Mercer for best male TV performance in Made in Canada and writing for This Hour has 22 Minutes.

Ceremony

The 3rd Canadian Comedy Awards ceremony was held on 4 April 2002 at The Docks in Toronto, Ontario. It was hosted by Brent Butt, the previous year's winner for best male stand-up. This was the first year the ceremony was not broadcast, due to a lack of sponsorship. As a result, the ceremony was scaled back in what journalist Leatrice Spevack described as a night of "gags over glamour".

While giving his acceptance speech for best comedic play, the base of Doug Morency's Beaver fell off. He quickly remarked, "Obviously, they're not made in Canada".

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface:

Live

Best Male Stand-up	Best Female Stand-up		Best Stand-up Newcomer
Shaun Majumder Derek Edwards Jason Rouse John Wing Jr. Mike Wilmot Peter Kelamis	Kristeen von Hagen Heidi Foss Kate Davis Martha Chaves Nikki Payne Shannon Laverty		Debra DiGiovanni Casey Corbin Dave Hemstad Dylan Mandlsohn Manolis Zontanos
Best Male Improviser		Best Female Improviser
Bob Martin Adrian Truss David C. Jones Doug Morency Roman Danylo		Janet van de Graaf Diana Frances Jane Luk Lisa Merchant Rebecca Northan
Best Sketch Troupe or Company		Best Improv Troupe or Company
The Gentlemen Callers Birdy Num Num Glyph Reid Along with Browning The Cowards		Slap Happy Cast of Die-Nasty On the Spot Rock-Paper-Scissors Sin City: The Improvised Soap Opera
Best One Person Show		Best New Play
Erotic Laser Swordfight Fully Committed My Big Fat Greek Wedding Things Under the Bed Welcome to My Nightmary: Mary Crosbie		Family Circus Maximus A Twisted Cyrano D'Bergerac Critic Sideshow of the Damned Spandex

Television

Best Performance by a Male	Best Performance by a Female
Rick Mercer – Made in Canada Rick Wharton – Conspiracy Guy Peter Keleghan – Made in Canada Vik Sahay – Our Hero Martin Short – Primetime Glick	Janet van de Graaf – History Bites Anne Tager Page – After Hours Jackie Torrens – Made in Canada Leah Pinsent – Made in Canada Jeanie Calleja – Our Hero
Best Direction in a Series	Best Direction in a Special or episode
Michael Kennedy, T. W. Peacocke, Stephen Reynolds, Henry Sarwer-Foner and Jerry Ciccoritti – Made in Canada Michael Kennedy – Blackfly Bob Sorger – Gutterball Alley Rick Green – History Bites Greg Lawrence – The Endless Grind	Henry Sarwer-Foner – Made in Canada – "Damacles What a Doll" Allan Manson – Comedy Now! – "Jason Rouse" John Karolidis – Ham I Am Greg Lawrence – The Endless Grind
Best Writing in a Series	Best Writing in a Special or episode
Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey, Mary Walsh, Luciano Casimiri, Mark Farrell, Paul Mather, Peter McBain, Christian Murray, George Westerholm and Kevin White – This Hour Has 22 Minutes Kenny Robinson, Joe Bodolai, Trey Anthony, Marina Gail, Bruce Hunter, Jean Paul – After Hours Danny DiTata, Rick Green, Duncan McKenzie, Amy McKenzie, Eric Lunsky, Jason Taniguchi, Jeremy Winkels – History Bites Rick Mercer, Mark Farrell, Alex Galatis, Alex Ganetakos, Ed Macdonald, Bob Martin, Edward Riche, Raymond Storey – Made in Canada Suzanne Bolch, John May – Our Hero	Bob Martin – Made in Canada – "Alan's Ex" Ian Boothby, Roger Fredericks – Big Sound – "Number One with a Bullet" Jason Rouse – Comedy Now! – "Jason Rouse" Brad Birch, Craig Lauzon – Ham I am Jessica Holmes – Holmes Alone

Film

Best Performance by a Male	Best Performance by a Female
Eugene Levy – American Pie 2 Benjamin Ratner – Last Wedding Andy Jones – Rare Birds Chris Owens – The Uncles Louis Di Bianco – Who is Cletis Tout?	Mary Walsh – Rare Birds Frida Betrani – Last Wedding Molly Parker – Last Wedding Megan Dunlop – Parsley Days Kathleen Robertson – Scary Movie 2
Best Direction	Best Writing
Bruce Sweeney – Last Wedding Andrea Dorfman – Parsley Days Sturla Gunnarsson – Rare Birds James Allodi – The Uncles William Phillips – Treed Murray	Karen Walton – Ginger Snaps Bruce Sweeney – Last Wedding Andrea Dorfman – Parsley Days Edward Riche – Rare Birds James Allodi – The Uncles

Multiple wins

The following people, shows, films, etc. received multiple awards

Multiple nominations

The following people, shows, films, etc. received multiple nominations

Nominations	Person or work
8	Made in Canada
4	Last Wedding
Our Hero
Rare Birds
3	Parsley Days
The Uncles
2\	After Hours
History Bites

External links

• Canadian Comedy Awards official website