Not Quite the Classics: One on One with Colin Mochrie

Hosted by CBC’s Lucy van Oldenbarneveld

In Person Fiction

Admission

Free

Monday

Nov , 2013

7:00pm

Eastern

Southminster United Church

15 Aylmer Avenue (at Bank Street) • Ottawa

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Not Quite the Classics: One on One with Colin Mochrie

Colin Mochrie is devastatingly handsome, perilously smart, and smells like warm maple syrup. Step inside his hilarious and complex mind, and abandon all hope.

Aisha Tyler

Colin Mochrie, a man known worldwide for working without a script, has penned a collection of stories destined to make its own mark in the literary community. Borrowing from a well-known improv game, Mochrie takes the first and last lines from familiar classics and reimagines everything in between. With the same engaging humour he exhibits on stage, television, and film, he takes the reader in bizarre and hilarious new directions, using the original writer's words as a launch and landing point. Imagine A Tale of Two Cities in which Wile E. Coyote gets his revenge on the Road Runner, Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat with zombies, or Sherlock Holmes devising a foolproof method for eliciting laughter and then taking the stage at a Victorian comedy club.

Copies of Not Quite the Classics will be available on-site. A booksigning will follow the event.

Listen to an interview with Colin Mochrie from CBC Radio's All in A Day.

The Authors

Colin Mochrie

Colin Mochrie was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, and has lived in Vancouver, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Toronto. He is best known for his roles in Whose Line Is It Anyway? and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and as host of Are You Smarter Than a Canadian 5th Grader? A regular for nine years on the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Mochrie also starred for eight seasons in the hit ABC version for 22 million American viewers a night at its peak, and it became a worldwide sensation in syndication. He performs more than fifty tour dates a year at sold-out venues all over North America. Mochrie lives in Toronto with his wife, actress Debra McGrath, and their son, Luke. This is his first book.