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Comedy Factory

Comedy Factory
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If a joke's worth telling, it's worth repeating. Comedy Factory host Jane Testar collects our favourite skits, commentaries and funny bits that appeared on CBC Radio over the past week. It's an assembly line of humour, safety-tested and priced to move!
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Let's get you NOTICED this summer with some of the hottest trends in fashion right now.From runners you can't run in, to recycled garments from 2001! Get ready to turn heads!
The sun is out, but are you in...side?Host Jane Testar explores the psychological phenomenon of beating yourself up for not making the most of those sunny days.
Feeling plugged in, yet out of touch?We'll bring you out of your fog until you're up to date and swimming in fascinating anecdotes.Get ready to be crowned King or Queen of the water cooler!
It's one day a year, and you've got YEARS of making up to do.A gift guide to repay your mother figure for her emotional and physical labour, you ungrateful mongrel!
They're popping up faster than your daffodils. Digging up the dirt on these tiny, temporary, urban forests of lies!
Is the state of the world turning you into an emotional tea kettle?Maybe think twice before...doing that annoying whistle thing in front of your fellow citizens.
Reclaim thy refuse! Salvage thy slop!Redeem thy civic reputation!...by picking up springtime trash with host Jane Testar.
As everything gets even MORE expensive, your favourite morning drink might have to be sacrificed in the name of fiscal prudence. But what to drink instead? Host Jane Testar looks at some equally stimulating options.
You know when you never asked for something, but you have to deal with it anyway?We're SWIMMING in that right now.Grab a snorkel with host Jane Testar.
Time to get back into election shape. Start scrolling through platforms, practicing your 'X', and standing in a series of short lines. It's CHOOSIN' time.
Forget Spring Cleaning, host Jane Testar is NESTING....HARD.Come gather essentials with her like decorative mirrors, and doomed exotic plants.
The answer to staying sane in this current climate? Getting a soothing and distracting hobby.Host Jane Testar ushers you through the wonderful world of leisure activities. And does a charcoal sketch of you just for fun.
There's something different and familiar happening.Something the extended cold and dark has made us forget.Host Jane Testar feels like it involves...flowers and...the colour green?
From the expected: Presenter flubs a lineTo the unexpected: Wardrobe malfunctionTo what would be more fun: Winner's botox fails mid speechWhat will be on your Academy Award bingo card this weekend?
Fight or flight? It's so hard to choose.International tensions are high and we're all feeling the stress, while clenching absolutely everything.Brace for impact with host Jane Testar.
Oh, unknowable love! It is what the world needs now. Let us learn more about it, then maybe we can have it!
In a trade war...our weapons...are debit cards...and potatoes.
Why is it so hard to figure out what to eat? From nutrition, to trends, the refrigerator becomes a minefield.
By phone, by text, or by e-mail, they're all out to get us.Host Jane Testar shows you how to build a wall around your information...and your heart.
It's not easy to stay calm, stay positive, or sane these days.But what if...we FORCED IT at hard as we can?
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