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Humourist. Author. Educator. Commuter.

Andrew Clark is an award-winning author and humourist. He writes the weekly Road Sage column for the Globe and Mail. He is the director of the Humber College Comedy program in Toronto.

He has won a gold award and been nominated several times for his writing at the National Magazine Awards, and was nominated for a Governor-General’s Award for Literary Non-Fiction for his most recent book, A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle. In the 1990s, he became Canada’s first fulltime comedy critic and his first book Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy remains the standard for writing critically about comedy. As a freelance journalist, he has written for publications including The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Maclean’s and The New York Times Magazine.

He commutes happily around Toronto, gaining comic insights for this Road Sage column in a Dodge Grand Caravan (the “anti-Porsche”).

February 5, 2025
There’s an unwritten etiquette with automobiles: If you aren’t the driver, don’t touch anything

If I had to identify the moment when I knew something was wrong, I’d say it was the jarring thud. Jarring thuds are never good, but they are especially not good when they are made by your head. In this case, the jarring thud…

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Orange is in.
February 5, 2025
Reaction to A.J. Brown’s Honda Civic shows how much we judge people by what they drive

It’s been a wild ride in the NFL playoffs, featuring controversial calls and spectacular plays. None of these, however, have come close to triggering the consternation caused January 16 when Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown rolled up to Lincoln Financial Field for the…

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October 11, 2024
People really don’t like having their driveway blocked. Why is it so common?

Driveway blocking, driveway encroachment, the hinderance of residential driveway ingress and egress – call it what you like – is one of the most common driving transgressions. That means there are a lot of unhappy people out there. It happens so frequently on my street in…

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