James Whittingham is currently appearing on CBC’s Just for Laughs television series, hosting the bridging vignettes in each episode. James began his comedy career in the mid 1980's with appearances on Regina Television. Later James starred in Strike Me Silly, a half hour 16mm comedy about the Devil inhabiting a bowling alley. In 1994 they began The James and Kevin Show on Access Communications (later broadcast on SCN with segments appearing on Vision TV and Canadian Comedy Shorts on The Comedy Network).

The Series has won him numerous awards including:

Best Cable Production at the 1997 Yorkton International Short Film and Video Festival,

Best Performance at the 1996 Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association Awards,

Best Cable Production at the 1994 and 1996 Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association Awards, and

Best Entertainment Program 1997 Canadian Cable Television Association Awards.

They were also nominated in the Best Performer category at the 1997 Yorkton Festival.

Whittingham has been a hit on stage as well, recently opening to an audience of 1000 for Bauser and Blue’s first Regina appearance at the Saskatchewan Center in January, 1998. He has hosted the 1994 Saskatchewan Motion Picture Industry Gala Awards. In 1995 he co-hosted with actress Cynthia Dale and CBC’s Peter Mansbridge.

James is a multi-faceted talent who is an award-winning performer, writer and producer. From the beginning he has been writing and producing The James and Kevin Show. After graduating with a film degree from the University of Regina in 1992, James went on to produce, write and direct eighty-five half hour episodes of the award-winning Regina series E-Clips over a three year period. He has also starred in popular television commercial campaigns in Saskatchewan, and even developed a large multi-media web site for The James and Kevin Show (Yahoo’s Pick of the Week, August, 1997).

Worst Photograph: 

Grade 11 School Photograph

Kevin Allardyce
"Kevin"

A Showcase award winner for his work as "Kevin" on The James and Kevin Show, Kevin Allardyce returns for the series' fifth season after a successful residency in a drug and alcohol rehab centre.

Born in Regina, Allardyce became interested in acting at an early age when he appeared in many high school plays and musicals including Anything Goes.  Later he appeared in Oliver in an unforgettable performance as "The Artiful Dodger."  Critics are still buzzing about his appearance in Man of La Mancha as "Don Quixote".   An avid debater, Allardyce dabbled in political science and later majored in Religious Studies at the University of Regina.

Allardyce's  also just appeared in the half hour TV drama Scrounger as "Kyle" a bull semen salesman.

Allardyce currently serves as the "Nice and Easy Girl" for Clairol.  He and his wife, writer/actor Stephanie Hall, live in Los Angeles with their son Henry.

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