Métis comedy special highlights “Where it is going right”
admin | May 25th, 2011 | 9 Comments »By Braden Dupuis There’s an old adage that says laughter is the best medicine. And while a single night of comedy may not be enough to reverse 125 years of hardship and suffering, it certainly never hurts to try. On February 25, 2011, try is what CBC Producer Merelda Fiddler and comedy troupe The Buck Naked Neechies did, in a special recorded for CBC’s coverage of National Aboriginal Day on June 21, 2011. “Recognizing that the past is sad doesn’t mean that there aren’t things that we can laugh about too,” said Fiddler. “If all you do is just remember the bad, you forget that there is so much good happening now, and the whole focus of the show is where it is going right.” The show, called ê-miywahkamikahk, (a Cree word which translates loosely to “where it is going right”) revolves around two men, a Cree senator
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