Rick and Sunday’s Comedy Channel!
Drawing from their years in film, television, clown, voice over, stand up, theatre & improvisation; Sunday Muse and Rick Howland use a multitude of characters to exaggerate the ups and downs of life. This comedy series is called BACKSEAT with P & J!
Muse and Howland lampoon the rigors of prepubescent teenage life from the backseat of a car. Each episode sees Precious Stemming (the slightly manic and potential victim of F.A.S. or A.D.H.D. or O.C.D. or all of the above) and Jake Goodchild (the happy go lucky kid with a hormonal imbalance due to medical intervention) riding to and from school. Think Trailer Park Boys meets Degrassi Junior High (the early years). Binge all 3 seasons now!! It won’t take long they are short episodes.
Rick Howland is Jake Goodchild
Nadia Bassett is Mom/The Driver
Bernie Henry is Bernie/Camera Operator
Backseat with P & J
Season 2 continues this tradition, revealing more about their own fears and feelings. And how confidence and leverage can be found with a bag of potato chips…despite Bernie.
Season 3 focuses on the changes that happen to tweens becoming teens.
The origin story
Improv Olympics
Ah, high school. Thanks to two guys from Ottawa who came to study at Queen’s, our drama club started an Improv team. We competed and got to Ottawa 2 years in a row. The first year we had team jackets. We had to win the eastern regionals in Brockville the second year before competing with the Ottawa teams (Newspaper Clipping). We did well in Ottawa but we never won big. However, the trophy we did win resided outside of the auditorium at KCVI in downtown Kingston – it was the biggest one in the case – until the school was torn down.
The Four Strombones
Founded by Rick Howland and named by Paulino Nunes “The Four Stombones” comedy troupe flourished from 1989 to 2009. Beginning at York University’s Open End Pub, running amock through out the comedy clubs of Toronto for two decades, and one extremely successful Fringe Show (Pictured Above) the troupe finally disbanded. “No mates grip could hold the lines of a ship crashing against rocky shores.” – Captain More Frankness, as he lept from the Santa De Kahlo’s bridge at the first sign of trouble.
