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Chris Finn

Canadian comedian and writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ5106548 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chris Finn is a Canadian stand-up comedian and comedy writer.

Finn was raised in Ottawa, Ontario. He has written for several television shows, including MAD TVThis Hour Has 22 Minutes, Talking to Americans, The Rick Mercer Report and Corner Gas. He has won five Gemini Awards and a 2001 Canadian Comedy Award as a writer for This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chris Finn” as canadian comedian and writer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chris, Finn and Canadian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as canadian comedian and writer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5106548. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chris Finn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.