Mark Farrell
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Mark Farrell (born 1968) is an award-winning Canadian comedian and writer, who honed his talent in the Yuk Yuk's comedy club in Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto in 1989. One of the founders of Canada's alternative comedy scene. Farrell helped lead an exodus from the Yuk Yuk's chain, along with other prominent comics such as Brent Butt. Success eventually called, as he appeared in two Ken Finkleman series, Married Life and the first version of The Newsroom.
Eventually his writing skills were noted, and as he became a writer for award-winning This Hour Has 22 Minutes (ironically back in Halifax) eventually moving all the way up to his current position on the show, Executive Producer. The show's success led to many other writing gigs, including another job as supervising producer for the first season of Corner Gas, a show for which he continues to write.
