The Holmes Show is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 television series that premiered on CTV

CTV television network

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 on September 24, 2002. The 22 episode series stars Jessica Holmes

Jessica Holmes

Jessica Holmes is a Canadian comedian and actress. She is best known for her work with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, which she joined in 2003. She is married to actor Scott Yaphe....

, Roman Danylo

Roman Danylo

Roman Danylo is a Canadian comedian, improviser and actor based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. He currently stars in the CTV television network show Comedy Inc.-Career:...

 and Kurt Smeaton. Filming took place at the CTV studios in June and August 2002. Each scene was shot twice with the second scene usually involving more improvisation. Other comedians featured include Raoul Bhaneja

Raoul Bhaneja

Raoul Bhaneja is a Canadian actor. He was one of the stars on the short lived TV series Train 48 on Global...

, Aurora Browne

Aurora Browne

Aurora Browne is a Canadian actress and comedian originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, currently based out of Toronto. In 2000, she was nominated for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award. Also in that year she was hired by Toronto's The Second City comedy troupe...

, James Cunningham, Jane Luk, Winston Spear, Shoshana Sperling and Scott Yaphe

Scott Yaphe

Scott Yaphe is a Canadian actor and comedian best known as a cast member of the YTV variety show It's Alive!. He moved over to the game show Uh Oh! after its cancellation in 1996...

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