Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
Canadian comedy group
The Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie were a Canadian musical and comedy group from Edmonton, Alberta, formed in 1987. Their credits include numerous stage productions, two television shows, and multiple albums.
The Trolls did sketch comedy, often on risqué or controversial subjects, along with humorous songs. One of their songs, "The Toronto Song" (which is often incorrectly attributed to The Arrogant Worms), makes fun of Ontario by insulting the city of Toronto, as well as all of Ontario, and eventually insulting the rest of the provinces except for Alberta. The Trolls also composed musical parodies of historical events such as the War of 1812, and Canada's 1999 division of Nunavut from the Northwest Territories; the song "Nunavut" opens with "We'll keep Canada... and you can have Nunavut!" (pronouncing it "None-of-it").
History
Childhood friends Wes Borg and musician and actor Joe Bird met actress Cathleen Rootsaert at a Rapid Fire Theatre Theatresports comedy jam and formed the group. Neil Grahn was recruited later. Their name allegedly came from a restaurant where staff jokingly called triple hamburgers-to-go "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie". They immediately began performing and, by 1991, were touring with a play they called Kevin Costner's Naked Butt.
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