Name: Codco
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones, Andy Jones

more edgy than anything ever on TV before or since

Canada has produced most of the funniest television of north america. While it may not be our major industry, it is one where the Americans do much of their recruiting. But Hollywood never travelled as far as Newfoundland, preferring the manhattanian luxuries of Toronto.  It is a shame because Codco is the most original, biting, and hilarious TV comedy sketch show ever recorded. Produced at the same time as Kids in the hall, it was always the far edgier, more scathing, and a whole lot less "lite" than the Kids were. But it was the Kids who went to America, at the same time the Cod disappeared from the newfoundland fisheries. Suspicious timing there, methinks.

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A Newfoundland, Canada focused sketch comedy show.

Andy Jones, Cathy Jones, Greg Malone, Tommy Sexton, and Mary Walsh in Codco (1986)

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