of all, I love that title, Nirvana, the Band, the Show of the Movie, because there are many factors here that inhibit this movie from achieving full crossover success, and that title is one of them. You need to explain that the stars and creators of this universe, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll, back in the 2000s had a web series called Nirvana the Band that was a sort of Borat-style mockumentary prank show series

where they played two local aspiring musicians, a couple of bozos, whose one and only goal was to score a show at the Rivoli.

The Rivoli is a bar and performance space at Queen and Spadina. And as locals will know,

certainly it's venerable, probably not the hardest place in the world to get a show at. But every

episode of the web series was about them trying to get a show and having a new hairbrain scheme.

And so then 10 years after that, in I think 2017 or 2018, they had a show on the short-lived Vice TV network called Nirvana, the band, The Show.

That was a somewhat scaled up version of this format.

And now here in the year 2026, they have Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie.

And the fact that they're called Nirvana the band, when there is a very well that they're called Nirvana, the band, when there is a very

well-known band called Nirvana, is barely mentioned and never explained. And so these are all

factors. I love a title that requires, well, it's like the title of our show, a title that

requires a lot of explanation just to cut through its own barrier. Yeah. So you had seen this

film before. We've been planning to do it for a while. It's a long time coming. And I got to say

this is some of the most fun I've had watching a movie for quite a while. This was an effortless

good time from start to finish. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen, absolutely ingenious.

Like a true Toronto movie and a movie that I think you'll appreciate even more

if you're from Toronto or if you've lived here because there's a lot of, you know,

it's a lot of very specific Toronto reference points here.

But even if you don't know Toronto, watch this movie, you'll have a great time. It's incredible. But even if you're not from Toronto, there's a certain spirit that

this movie hooks into, which I think is a specifically millennial or younger spirit. I've been

detecting it in a lot of movies and TV shows lately. I mean, locally, I definitely felt something

of this in The P.P. P. Poo-P. Man.

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