TallBoyz performing a live show at Apollo Cinema in Kitchener, Ontario in February 2020.

TallBoyz is a Canadian television sketch comedy troupe best known for their 2019-2022 CBC Television sketch comedy series.[1] The troupe members are Guled Abdi, Vance Banzo, Tim Blair and Franco Nguyen, who have worked for several years in stage-based sketch comedy under the name TallBoyz II Men.[2]

They were best known for their stage show A 6ix NNNNNN Revue,[3] which won the award for Best Comedy at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival.[4] The title of A 6ix NNNNNN Revue was an allusion to the Toronto alternative weekly newspaper Now, whose music, film, literature and theatre critics rate works on a scale of one to five N's instead of stars.[3]

Television series

The group's television series is produced by Bruce McCulloch and Susan Cavan,[2] and was developed after McCulloch saw the troupe perform at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival in 2018.[5]

In March 2022, the series began airing in the U.S on Fuse.[6]

Tallboyz is the winner of four Canadian Screen Awards (CSAs) including Best Sketch Comedy Program or Series.

Season 1

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
11"What's it Gonna Be, Boys?"UnknownUnknownSeptember 17, 2019 (2019-09-17)
22"Clap Your Hands, Everybody"UnknownUnknownSeptember 24, 2019 (2019-09-24)
33"Mind the Mints"UnknownUnknownOctober 1, 2019 (2019-10-01)
44"Suck it Up and Go to Mars"UnknownUnknownOctober 8, 2019 (2019-10-08)
55"Wow, Are These Insoles?"UnknownUnknownOctober 15, 2019 (2019-10-15)
66"Under Caricature Clouds"UnknownUnknownOctober 22, 2019 (2019-10-22)
77"Hoop Hoop Hooray!"UnknownUnknownOctober 29, 2019 (2019-10-29)
88"Fare is Fair"UnknownUnknownNovember 5, 2019 (2019-11-05)

Season 2

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
91"You're the Dads Now!"UnknownUnknownFebruary 16, 2021 (2021-02-16)
102"Refreshingly Not Racist"UnknownUnknownFebruary 23, 2021 (2021-02-23)
113"Poetry in Falsetto"UnknownUnknownMarch 2, 2021 (2021-03-02)
124"Why is He Blowing Me Kisses?"UnknownUnknownMarch 9, 2021 (2021-03-09)
135"Leave the Duckies and Go"UnknownUnknownMarch 16, 2021 (2021-03-16)
146"All the Focus is on the Diamonds"UnknownUnknownMarch 23, 2021 (2021-03-23)
157"I Rank Velvet #1"UnknownUnknownMarch 30, 2021 (2021-03-30)
168"Who's Guarding the Angel?"UnknownUnknownApril 6, 2021 (2021-04-06)

Season 3

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
171"Don't Swear in Front of the Song"UnknownUnknownJanuary 25, 2022 (2022-01-25)
182"I Don't Trust the Cloud"UnknownUnknownFebruary 1, 2022 (2022-02-01)
193"It's Hard Being Precocious"UnknownUnknownFebruary 22, 2022 (2022-02-22)
204"Jesus Was a Homeless Baby Too"UnknownUnknownMarch 1, 2022 (2022-03-01)
215"You Always Pick Scissors"UnknownUnknownMarch 8, 2022 (2022-03-08)
226"Can You Keep Your Wishing Down?"UnknownUnknownMarch 15, 2022 (2022-03-15)
237"I've Got This Foot Thing"UnknownUnknownMarch 22, 2022 (2022-03-22)
248"Papa You Are My Dad"UnknownUnknownMarch 29, 2022 (2022-03-29)

References

  1. ^ Raju Mudhar, "A Black Lady Sketch Show and TallBoyz make sketch comedy more colourful". Toronto Star, August 17, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "CBC picks up male sketch comedy series Tallboyz". Hamilton Spectator, March 28, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Fringe Review: A 6ix NNNNNN Revue". Now, July 5, 2018.
  4. ^ "CBC TV greenlights Tallboyz II Men comedy series". Now, March 27, 2019.
  5. ^ Eric Volmers, "Seriously funny; Tallboyz II Men silly, surreal and socially relevant". Kingston Whig-Standard, September 14, 2019.
  6. ^ "AMIDST UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH, LATINO-OWNED FUSE MEDIA ENTERS UPFRONT WITH NEW LAUNCHES, BRAND OPPORTUNITIES AND VIBRANT ENTERTAINMENT TO EMPOWER DIVERSE YOUNG VOICES". Retrieved 2022-09-19.

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