Michel Choquette (born March 14, 1938) is a Canadian humorist who has written for print, for television and for film, and a comedian who has performed for television.
Life and career edit
Choquette was born March 14, 1938, in Montreal, Quebec to a French Canadian family.
He attended Selwyn House School and did his undergraduate studies at Sir George Williams University. Afterwards, he studied for a master's degree in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, but did not graduate.[1][2]
In 1959 he created a record called "Songs of Murray Bay", which made fun of a summer resort town on the St. Lawrence which was widely popular locally. Because of this song, Choquette, at age 22, caught the interest of Cambridge-based musical satirist Tom Lehrer.
Along with Peter Elbling, Choquette was half of the comedy duo "The Times Square Two" from 1964 to 1970.[3]
Choquette wrote for the Harvard Lampoon, and for National Lampoon magazine, where he was a contributing editor from 1970 to 1971, an associate editor during 1972, and a contributing editor from 1973 to 1974.[4]
During the 1970s, Choquette put together The Someday Funnies, a large collection of original comics about the 1960s that were created especially for the book by 169 writers and artists. The book was released by Abrams on November 1, 2011.[5]
In 1979 he played the bilingual tourist in the short satirical film Twice Upon a Time... (Il était deux fois).
Choquette presently teaches screenwriting, comedy writing and creative writing at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal.
Further reading edit
Journals edit
- LEVIN, Bob, August 2009, The Comics Journal, 299, "How Michel Choquette (Almost) Assembled the Most Stupendous Comic Book in the World"
Books edit
- KARP, Josh, 2004 Chicago Review Press, A Futile and Stupid Gesture
- SIMMONS, Matty, 1994, Barricade Books, If You Don't Buy This Book We'll Kill This Dog
- HENDRA, Tony, 1987, Dolphin Doubleday, Going Too Far
References edit
- ^ Selwyn House School Yearbook 1964
- ^ Education for a surreal world
- ^ "Anyone remember the obscure guest on the Dean Martin Hour???Please??".
- ^ "National Lampoon Staff & Contributors Index". Archived from the original on 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
- ^ Choquette, Michel (November 2011). The Someday Funnies. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0810996182.