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Chris Cannon’s video “The Canada Party” has experienced skyrocketing popularity since its YouTube debut on January 3, reaching well over 400,000 views in a week.
The video is a snarky satire that takes a Canadian perspective on American politics. Chris Cannon, who teaches creative writing at UBC, and Brian Calvert, co-creators of the video, collaborated on a number of other projects before getting the inspiration for this video.
“Have you been watching the news? Brian and I realized the easiest job in the world is doing political humour at this moment in history. The best comedy writes itself,” said Cannon when asked how the idea for the video came to him.
While serving mainly as a comedic piece, the video also contains very strong themes regarding the strength of the Canadian state and the absurdity of the current political situation in America.
“We’re shooting the second piece this weekend and have our first campaign poster ready to rock,” said Cannon. He and Alvert are wasting no time in providing more material for the vast number of fans, and are trying to build a Twitter following through @theCanadaParty. “[I] didn’t realize how hard it was to be funny in 140 characters. It’s like trying to do The Daily Show in haiku.”
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