Joe Bodolai
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| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Youngstown, Ohio, United States |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Los Angeles, California, United States |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Film and television producer, writer |
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| Known for | Co-founder of The Comedy Network |
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Joe Bodolai (May 11, 1948 – December 26, 2011) was an American film and television producer and writer.[2]
Born and raised in the United States, Bodolai was opposed to the Vietnam War and moved to Canada in order to avoid being drafted.[3] He moved back to the United States in 1981 to write for twenty episodes of Saturday Night Live before returning to Canada.
He is best known for producing such television shows as It's Only Rock & Roll, Comics!, and The Kids in the Hall and helping to launch the careers of the young talent featured on those shows. He also co-wrote the first draft of the film Wayne's World with Mike Myers.
Bodolai was a founder of The Comedy Network, helping the new channel secure its licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 1996, and expected to be named the new channel's head by its owners. He was disappointed when he was not hired and decided to return permanently to the United States.[4]
Bodolai was found dead on December 26, 2011, in a Hollywood hotel room of an apparent suicide; he was 63.[5][6][7] No suicide note was found, though on December 23 a long post was added to his blog,[8] entitled "If this were your last day alive what would you do?"[9]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Joe Bodolai in Memoriam". Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Passings". The Los Angeles Times. December 28, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Comedy writer Joe Bodolai dies at 63". CBC News. December 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Barber, John (December 27, 2011). "Joe Bodolai remembered as 'incredibly funny, wildly smart'". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on January 8, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Los Angeles Times". December 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Hollywood Reporter". Hollywoodreporter.com. December 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Wall Street Journal". Wsj.com. December 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CNN". CNN.com. December 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."If this were your last day alive what would you do?" (blog). Say It Ain't So Joe!. Wordpress.com. December 23, 2011. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
External links
- Joe Bodolai at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
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- Say It Ain't So, Joe! News, Opinion, and Satire By Joe Bodolai (blog)
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