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Released: Jan 1, 2006

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Genre: 2-step / Comedy / Psychobilly
Location Toronto, Ontario, CA
Profile Views: 14858
Last Login: 11/23/2007
Member Since 6/12/2006
Website www.cbc.ca/andsometimesy
Record Label CBC Radio One
Type of Label Indie
Bio
"And Sometimes Y" is CBC Radio's weekly show about the English language. The 2007 series airs between January and June, every Saturday at 11:30 a.m., on Radio One. (It gets repeated on Tuesday mornings at 11:30.) The host, Russell Smith, has taken to calling me the show's in-house 'word nerd' because I used to write dictionary definitions for a living, and because I make him play the word games I devise, such as the Robertson Davies Challenge, which is a guessing game based on the archaic and obscure words that Robertson Davies threw into all his novels. Anyway. If you don't live in Canada, you can still hear And Sometimes Y, either on the website (www.cbc.ca) or on Sirius Satellite 137.
Members
Tom Howell. The rest of the band, who are all at least as nerdy as I am, are: producers Nicola Luksic and Andrew Kaufman, and the host, Russell Smith. Really... Russell Smith, now there's a nerd... he doesn't even hang out on myspace...
Influences
In Our Times, Big Ideas, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Wiretap, Just a Minute, DNTO, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Adventure of English, David Crystal, the Oxford English Dictionary, Katherine Barber... and the letter Y.
Sounds Like
the show's host is Russell Smith. He sounds like he wears a monocle. I'm the show's sidekick. I sound like I'm much smarter than Russell. Oh, and then there are various guests. They sound like the charming, opinionated, articulate people they are.

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Bio:

"And Sometimes Y" is CBC Radio's weekly show about the English language. The 2007 series airs between January and June, every Saturday at 11:30 a.m., on Radio One. (It gets repeated on Tuesday mornings at 11:30.) The host, Russell Smith, has taken to calling me the show's in-house 'word nerd' because I used to write dictionary definitions for a living, and because I make him play the word games I devise, such as the Robertson Davies Challenge, which is a guessing game based on the archaic and obscure words that Robertson Davies threw into all his novels. Anyway. If you don't live in Canada, you can still hear And Sometimes Y, either on the website (www.cbc.ca) or on Sirius Satellite 137.

Member Since:

June 12, 2006

Members:

Tom Howell. The rest of the band, who are all at least as nerdy as I am, are: producers Nicola Luksic and Andrew Kaufman, and the host, Russell Smith. Really... Russell Smith, now there's a nerd... he doesn't even hang out on myspace...

Influences:

In Our Times, Big Ideas, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Wiretap, Just a Minute, DNTO, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Adventure of English, David Crystal, the Oxford English Dictionary, Katherine Barber... and the letter Y.

Sounds Like:

the show's host is Russell Smith. He sounds like he wears a monocle. I'm the show's sidekick. I sound like I'm much smarter than Russell. Oh, and then there are various guests. They sound like the charming, opinionated, articulate people they are.