Buzz (TV series)
Canadian comedy television series
Buzz was a Canadian comedy television series that aired on The Comedy Network from 2000 to 2005. The show was hosted by "Mista Mo" (Morgan Oliver Smith) and Daryn Jones. The show originally aired from 1996-1999 as a community channel show on Rogers Television before getting a network deal in 1999. In 2001, the show won a Gemini Award in the "Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series" category. Season 4 saw them take the show to New York, London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. The show ended in 2005.
Created in Toronto, the show found a place on the Comedy Network when The Tom Green Show left to MTV. The show uses sketch comedy, non-sequiturs and guerrilla comedy. The two hosts, Daryn Jones, a geeky theatre major, and Mista Mo, an "almost real rapper" often riff on the racial tensions between them.
Recurring sketches and characters
Annual Fat Pride Parade
Selling Parked Cars
Break Stuff - end-segment, where either hosts break items (TV's, eggs) or pedestrians battle each other
The BuzzCops - Daryn and Mo, dressed as policemen, dole out misguided justice to Toronto's citizens.
The BuzzNews - The Buzz's take on fake news (The Daily Show, Weekend Update)
The Cable Access Painter - Daryn parodies PBS painter Bob Ross, with homosexual overtones.
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