{"id":951069,"date":"2026-10-29T20:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951069\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:56:12","slug":"slo-pitch-is-queering-the-frat-bro-comedy-one-softball-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951069\/","title":{"rendered":"Slo Pitch is queering the frat bro comedy, one softball at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arts<\/a>\u00b7Here &amp; Queer<\/p>\n<p>Slo Pitch creators and stars Gwenlyn Cumyn and Karen Knox join Peter Knegt for the season premiere of Here &amp; Queer.<\/p>\n<p>Slo Pitch creators and stars Gwenlyn Cumyn and Karen Knox kick off the sixth season of Here &amp; Queer<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793307370_167_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/author\/peter-knegt-1.3402436\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Knegt<\/a>  \u00b7 CBC Arts  \u00b7 Posted: Oct 29, 2026 2:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Gwendolyn Cumyn (left) and Karen Knox are the guests on the sixth season premiere of Here &amp; Queer.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793307371_830_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Gwendolyn Cumyn (left) and Karen Knox are the guests on the sixth season premiere of Here &amp; Queer. (CBC Arts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\"><a class=\"link-_o8iA html-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/topic\/Tag\/Here%20And%20Queer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here &amp; Queer<\/a>\u00a0is a Canadian Screen Award-winning talk series hosted by Peter Knegt that celebrates and amplifies the work of LGBTQ artists through unfiltered conversations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Here &amp; Queer is back for a sixth season, and its first guests are some heavy hitters: Gwenlyn Cumyn and Karen Knox, the co-creators and stars of the very here, very queer new Crave series Slo Pitch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Cumyn and Knox sit down with Here &amp; Queer host Peter Knegt to discuss taking inspiration from Letterkenny and Trailer Park Boys, their 15-year creative partnership, and the show&#8217;s journey from web series to Crave. Plus, they reveal how Elliot Page helped bring the show to television and why they&#8217;re excited about the future of Canadian comedy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Watch the whole episode below:<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Gwenlyn Cumyn and Karen Knox on Here &amp; Queer:<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793307372_540_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorprofile-biography\">Peter Knegt (he\/him) hosts the Canadian Screen Award-winning talk series Here &amp; Queer, produces the essay series Emerging Queer Voices and co-writes the column Holding Space with Anne T. Donahue. His previous work at CBC Arts included writing the LGBTQ-culture column Queeries (winner of the Digital Publishing Award for best digital column in Canada) and spearheading the launch and production of series Canada&#8217;s a Drag, variety special Queer Pride Inside, and interactive projects Superqueeroes and The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry. Beyond CBC, Knegt is also the filmmaker of numerous short films, the author of the book About Canada: Queer Rights and the curator and host of the monthly film series Queer Cinema Club at Toronto&#8217;s Paradise Theatre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arts\u00b7Here &amp; Queer Slo Pitch creators and stars Gwenlyn Cumyn and Karen Knox join Peter Knegt for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-951069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}