Colin may refer to:

• Colin (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie
• Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse
• Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, Australia, in August 2008
• Colin (given name), people with the given name Colin
• Colin (security robot), in Mostly Harmless of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
• Tropical Storm Colin (2010), an Atlantic storm in 2010
• Colin the Vet, a fictional character in the UK comic The Beano

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Colin Mochrie
Mochrie in June 2009
Birth name	Colin Andrew Mochrie
Born	(1957-11-30) November 30, 1957 (age 54) Kilmarnock, Scotland
Medium	Stand-up comedy, television
Nationality	Scottish Canadian
Years active	1977–present
Genres	Improvisational comedy
Influences	"Anyone who made people laugh"[1]
Spouse	Debra McGrath (1989–present)
Notable works and roles	British and American versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? This Hour Has 22 Minutes (2001-2003)
Website	http://www.colinmochrie.com/

Colin Andrew Mochrie (/ˈmɒkri/; born November 30, 1957) is a Scottish Canadian actor and improvisational comedian, most famous for his appearances on the British and U.S. versions of television improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

Early life[link]

Colin Mochrie was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, the oldest of three children. He was shy as a child, stating that neighbours would have commented that he "watched way too much television."^[2] In 1964, his family moved to a French neighbourhood just outside Montreal, Quebec, and five years later moved again to Vancouver, British Columbia.^[3] Mochrie attended Killarney Secondary School, where he was a self-proclaimed loner who wanted to become a marine biologist.^[4] He was persuaded by a friend to try out for a play entitled The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch where Mochrie played the role of the undertaker.^[2] He was hooked when he got his first laugh, which paved the way for a career in entertainment.^[4] After graduating from high school, where he was valedictorian,^[5] Mochrie attended the Studio 58 theatre school in Vancouver for four years, where he discovered the art of improvisational comedy.^[6]

Career[link]

Improvisational beginnings[link]

Upon graduation from Studio 58, Mochrie found his first line of work as a member of the Vancouver TheatreSports League.^[4] He started working with the group in 1980. Fame was slow to start, as Mochrie "literally had to pull people out of McDonald's to come see the shows."^[5] Mochrie originally had parts in plays while working for the group, though after a time working for the TheatreSports League became a full-time job for Mochrie.^[5] He met fellow improv comedian Ryan Stiles during this time. He was visiting a mutual friend in New Zealand when Stiles was doing comedy at Punchlines. After the two met, Stiles and Mochrie began working at TheatreSports together.^[5] It has been stated that the two met while members of Second City,^[7] though, according to Mochrie, this is untrue.^[5]

Following Expo '86, Mochrie ended his tenure with the Vancouver TheatreSports League and moved to Toronto. Once there, Mochrie auditioned for The Second City comedy troupe, where Stiles was working.^[8] He began performing with the Second City National Touring Company where he met Debra McGrath, who was the director of the company at the time.^[4] The two were married in 1989 and had a son, Luke, in 1990.

Mochrie worked for The Second City for three years, co-writing and starring in three productions and directing three seasons of their national touring company. As a member of the touring company, he performed in many skits, including one where he and two others are at a bar, and they help him to rewrite an anecdote from his youth involving his father taking him to a baseball game; and a five-minute version of a James Bond movie, complete with Mochrie in a downhill ski chase and parachuting off a cliff.^[9]

1988–1998[link]

Upon finishing his stint with Second City in 1988, Mochrie's career was quiet for a while as he spent some time with his new wife and child. In 1989, he auditioned for the new British Channel 4 improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, but did not make the cut.^[10] Mochrie has stated that audition was a good learning experience because while improv is about setting other people up to be funny, auditions should be about giving yourself chance to stand out.^[11] He moved to Los Angeles the following year, and again auditioned for Whose Line, this time making the cut and was asked to fly to London. He appeared on one episode and was again let go.^[12] The third time he auditioned, he earned a regular spot on the show. He spent seven years as a regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and remained a cast member until the show's end in 1998.

After the British version of the show ended its run, Mochrie joined the American version of Whose Line hosted by Drew Carey on ABC. He was brought on alongside Ryan Stiles, who was also a regular member of the UK cast.^[13] Mochrie appeared on every episode from its debut in August 1998 to its finale in 2006. He noted his favorite sketches as "Scenes From a Hat", where he would have to act out scenes written up by audience members, and "Whose Line" where he and Stiles would act out a sketch and have to add in lines written on pieces of paper.^[14] He felt that his weak spots were the musical segments and the "Hoedown" sketch, which he said was the only time during the show when he felt total fear. Mochrie, who could not sing, usually spoke his lines instead of singing them.^[14]

His co-stars on the show would frequently mock him for being Canadian and for his receding hairline, though this did not come until later as very early on in the UK version, Mochrie still had a fairly full head of hair. Instead, the bald jokes were done at the expense of the UK host, Clive Anderson. In the American version, he would often perform the female role in certain frequently-performed skits, such as "Whose Line" and "Two Line Vocabulary". In the few times he played the man in the scene, the producers were making further fun of his baldness (e.g. Colin was Samson, and Ryan was his girlfriend, and Samson had lost all his strength because Ryan had cut off his hair). He would also be cast as the anchor in the "Newscasters" segment (along with Greg Proops and Brad Sherwood), wherein he would frequently begin by announcing himself with a fictitiously humorous name (e.g. Jose Canyousee) and continue with a fake news report that ended in an unexpected and pun-laden segue.

According to his agent Jeff Andrews, during the airing of Whose Line Mochrie was better known in Canada as a "commercial king", performing as characters such the Detergent Crusader for Sunlight detergent.^[10] In March 2005, a Nabisco advertising campaign starred Mochrie as the "Snack Fairy", in which he wears a ballet tutu over ordinary slacks and a shirt. At the end of each commercial, he declares "Snack happy!" and waves his scepter while sporting a smile.

Mochrie remained active elsewhere during his tenure as a Whose Line member. In early 1994, he played the role of Mike Brady in a musical version of The Brady Bunch, directed by fellow Second City member Bruce Pirrie. In the production, Mochrie plays the character as caffeine-fueled, jittery, and neurotic, an exaggeration of the Mike Brady television character, who often had a coffee in his hand on the show.^[15] Shortly before his move to the U.S. version of Whose Line in 1998, Mochrie starred in Supertown Challenge as the host of game shows, which the show spoofed.

1999–present[link]

In an interview, it was revealed that in 1999 Mochrie worked on the Miloš Forman film Man on the Moon, but his scenes were deleted from the final movie.^[16]

Mochrie in 2006

Mochrie starred in the Canadian comedy series Blackfly. He appeared in This Hour Has 22 Minutes on CBC Television from 2001 through 2003, and on the WB Television Network series Drew Carey's Green Screen Show in 2004. Mochrie starred in Getting Along Famously in 2006. He was a guest star in three episodes of The Drew Carey Show: "She's Gotta Have It" (1999), "Drew Live" (1999), and "Drew Live II" (2000). He also appeared on Nickelodeon's Figure It Out as a celebrity guest panelist; in one segment of the show, he was slimed. He had a one-liner in the "Bad Hare Day" episode of Goosebumps, and he made special guest appearances in several episodes of The Red Green Show.

In 2003, Mochrie, Leslie Nielsen, Wayne Gretzky, and Roy Halladay appeared in print and television advertisements to encourage people to visit Toronto after the SARS outbreak that struck the city.

In May 2004, he hosted a tongue-in-cheek guide to surviving animal attacks on Animal Planet known as Wild Survival Guide. He has done a commercial supporting Habitat For Humanity. He appeared briefly in a commercial for Buckley's Cough Syrup, and he was featured in a commercial for New York Fries, manning a steamroller. He appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as the superhero Overly Sensitive Man (inspired from Whose Line).

By 2004 Mochrie was appearing in so many media spots that a new Canadian television series, Corner Gas, made light of it by having him do a cameo appearance in the tenth episode. The gag had Mochrie appear shortly after the character Brent mentioned that Mochrie has a cameo in nearly everything. In 2005, Mochrie appeared in "Burnt Toast", a series of eight comedic mini-operas, each depicting a different stage of a romantic relationship in a contemporary setting, produced by Canada's Rhombus Media. He also appeared in an episode of The Surreal Gourmet.

Along with Rosie O'Donnell, Mochrie hosts a video introduction to a tour of the bakery in the Pacific Wharf area of Disney California Adventure Park. In the video, he helps explain how sourdough bread is made. On December 25, 2005, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation premièred the TV movie The Magical Gathering. Mochrie starred in this, and his son Luke co-starred as Mochrie's character at a younger age. In February 2007, he made a guest appearance as a priest in the seventh episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a Canadian television comedy series.

Wikinews has related news: Comedian Colin Mochrie to host Canadian "5th Grader" game show

On March 28, 2007, Mochrie and his Whose Line costar Brad Sherwood hosted part of the Press Correspondents' Dinner with the President. At that event, Sherwood and Mochrie featured Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove rapping. Rove's only line was "MC Rove". On August 29, 2007, it was announced that Mochrie would host the Canadian version of the game show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?. The first of five episodes aired on October 25, 2007. As a result, Mochrie became the fifth member of the American Whose Line? cast to become a game show host, after colleagues Brad Sherwood (The Dating Game and The Big Moment), Greg Proops (VS., Head Games and Rendez-View), Wayne Brady (Don't Forget the Lyrics! and Let's Make A Deal), and Drew Carey (Power of 10 and The Price Is Right).

Since 2002, Mochrie and Sherwood have intermittently toured North America as a two-man stage show called "An Evening with Colin and Brad," playing primarily in small theater venues.^[17] A DVD of their performances, "Colin & Brad: Two Man Group" was released on March 8, 2011.

In 2010, he acted in the forthcoming Canadian television sitcom She's the Mayor, scheduled to debut in 2011.^[18]

On July 19, 2010, Mochrie starred as the divorce lawyer working on the case of Spinner and Emma in Degrassi Takes Manhattan.

The image of Mochrie's face is used extensively in Animutation, a style of Flash animation. Neil Cicierega, the father of Animutation^{[citation needed]}, would place Mochrie in almost every Animutation he made, making the inclusion of him in Animutation somewhat of a running gag. Mochrie is aware of his status among Animutation artists and fans, having been quoted, "It was very odd when I first saw the animutations. Obviously the animators are more than a little crazy, but I am very proud of my standing in the animutation arena and hope that some day I can make millions off of it."^[19]

In 2011, Mochrie appeared as a regular cast member on Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza on GSN.^[20]

Personal life[link]

Mochrie lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife, Debra McGrath and his son Luke, who is a regular contributor on the comedic website That Guy with the Glasses with the show Film Conscience.^{[citation needed]}

Awards[link]

Mochrie has been nominated for five Canadian Comedy Awards, and has won two. He has also won a Gemini Award and a Writers Guild of Canada award for This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Colin Mochrie at the Internet Movie Database
• TV.com profile
• Evening with Colin & Brad live tour

Interviews[link]

• An Interview with...Colin Mochrie, 2 March 2005
• The Comedy Couch Colin Mochrie interview, 10 May 2005
• Audio interview with Colin Mochrie, 18 January 2006
• Interview, December 2006
• Tempo Toronto interview

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Colin Ryan is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Newmarket and has been a member of the Clare since 2009.^[1]

References[link]

Colin Camerer

Born	(1959-12-04) December 4, 1959 (age 52)
Nationality	United States
Institution	California Institute of Technology
Field	Behavioral economics
Alma mater	University of Chicago Johns Hopkins University
Information at IDEAS/RePEc

Colin F. Camerer (born December 4, 1959) is an American behavioral economist and a Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

A former child prodigy, Camerer received a B.A. in quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins University in 1977 (at age 17), followed by an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago in 1979 and a Ph.D. in behavioral decision theory from that same institution in 1981 (at age 21). Camerer worked at Kellogg, Wharton, and the University of Chicago Booth school of business before moving to Caltech in 1994.

Camerer's research is on the interface between cognitive psychology and economics. This work seeks a better understanding of the psychological and neurobiological basis of decision-making in order to determine the validity of models of human economic behavior. His research uses mostly economics experiments-- and occasionally field studies-- to understand how people behave when making decisions (e.g., risky gambles for money), in games, and in markets (e.g., speculative price bubbles).

He spoke at the Econometric Society World Congress in London on August 20, 2005 and at the Nobel Centennial Symposium in 2001 on Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

He is the author of "Behavioral Game Theory" published by Princeton University Press in 2003.

Fever Records[link]

In 1983, Camerer started a record label called Fever Records as "an economics experiment". Bands that he signed to the label include the Dead Milkmen, Big Black and Get Smart!.^[1] The label was part of the Enigma Records group of labels.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Personal webpage at Caltech
• "Mind Reading: The New Science of Decision Making", from Newsweek

This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions may be available. (April 2010)

Colin Stokes (cellist) (born October 7, 1987) is an American-born cellist, pursuing an active performing career in the United States and Europe.

Biography[link]

Colin Stokes was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to parents Lisa Portmess and Harry Stokes. His mother is a professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College ^[1] and his father is the president of Gaia, Inc.^[2]

At age 6 Colin began studying piano and one year later started lessons on the cello. He studied locally until age 11 when he started commuting to Baltimore, Maryland to study with Troy Stuart, with whom he stayed until his graduation from Baltimore School for the Arts in 2006.^[3][4] While in high school, Colin was chosen to play with Yo-Yo Ma in Heitor Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD and the Strathmore Performing Arts Center outside of Washington, D.C..^[4][5] About the concert, Andante wrote "Just as beautifully executed, but more moving emotionally, was the surging intensity of Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5. Janice Chandler-Eteme...supported by Temirkanov leading an ensemble of splendid cellists that included Ma...[and] Colin Stokes."^[6] Upon graduation from Baltimore School for the Arts, Colin was given the Joan G. and Joseph Klein, Jr. Prize for the Most Promising Performing Artist.

Colin has spent summers at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival and the Heifetz Institute. He has been invited to perform on series such as Baltimore’s 2nd Presbyterian Chamber Series, Norfolk’s Master Artist Series and Heifetz’ Celebrity Artist Series.^[7] He has collaborated with some of the great artists of today including Ani Kavafian,^[8] Yo-Yo Ma,^[4][6] James Taylor^[8] and Yuri Temirkanov.^[4][6] Colin Stokes has premiered works by composers Joungbum Lee, Jen Bellor, Robert Pierzak, Matt Barber and Michael Myounghoon Lee. He has also worked closely with composers Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and John Williams on their own music.

Colin currently studies with Steven Doane and Rosemary Elliott at the Eastman School of Music^[9] in Rochester, NY. He plays on a cello made by Carl Becker in 1940

References[link]

External links[link]

• http://www.colin-stokes.com
• http://twitter.com/colinstokes
• http://esm.rochester.edu
• http://www.linkedin.com/pub/colin-stokes/16/945/884