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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”).

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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September 22, 2024
In Canada, we are a nation of honkers. We stand on guard to honk

Canadians love to honk their horns. In recovery-speak we are horn-dependent. We are a nation of honkers. We stand on guard to honk. It makes sense, given there are so many Canadian geese flying around honking. Honking is not restricted to urban environments. You…

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September 22, 2024
Popularity of white, grey for a car rises. Why are we all so boring? Where is the joy?

It’s fall and the leaves are changing colour. Trees are aflame with red, orange, gold and brown. Sunshine lights up the Canadian countryside into a dazzling display while the cities look dressed up for autumn. So why are the cars so boring? Meanwhile, cars…

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