May 3, 2008
Terry Fallis - we love him
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A little known secret amongst the BusComm community is that the REAL brains behind the rather wonderful Inside PR podcast, Terry Fallis, has just won $10k as a humour author.
We ALL knew he had to have a sense of humour to work with the ‘dark side’ (aka Dr. Jones) but now his genius is finally being recognised.
Says the Globe and Mail,
A debut novel, self-published by its author after he couldn’t interest an agent or a Canadian publisher, has won the $10,000 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
Toronto’s Terry Fallis, who is president of the well-known public-relations firm Thornley Fallis, received the medal and cheque yesterday for The Best Laid Plans at a luncheon in Orillia, Ont., the hometown of Sunshine Sketches creator Stephen Leacock and 100 kilometres north of Toronto.
In an interview, the 48-year-old rookie writer described winning Canada’s most prestigious annual prize for a humorous book as “a head-on collision of shock and joy.” Previously, “it was not even on my radar screen to be nominated,” he said, and when he was, “I was pretty close to having an aneurysm.”
The man is far too modest. Anyone who has ever listened to the sublime podcast that is Inside PR will know that it is the interaction of the TWO of them, Jones and Fallis, wherein the magic is created. Terry’s magic comes from his ability to step outside of what we immediately see, and to tap into what unconsciously resonates in us but we don’t know why.
And should anyone think I’m ‘dissing’ David Jones, far from it! The man has my sense of humour — black, dark, underground. He and I make ‘Addams Family Values’ [and here — one of my favourite movies) look like ‘Barbie Plats Her Hair 7‘…
Stumble it!
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May 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 am
You’ve outdone yourself Lee. My swelling head is obscuring my view of the keyboard. Thanks for a great post…
Ter
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:35 am
This puts Terry right up there as one of the highest paid podcasters.
He’s a great guy and successful businessman. How in the Christ were any of us to know he had any real talent. You know, he also sings and plays guitar. I’m sure he’ll win a Juno, Grammy and Brit Award (plus whatever music award they hand out in Oz) for the track he’s going to podcast for free later this year from his forthcoming CD: “Songs Inspired by the Best Laid Plans.” The lead single, “I’ve got a 10-thousand-dollar (Lea)Cock” is sure to be a crowd favourite at geek dinners and podcaster meetups.
If we just collected up some of our darker back-channel e-mails and published those we’d have a prize winner on our hands too
D
May 4th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
If I recall correctly from “The Groucho Letters”, Leacock was one of the very few humourists Groucho Marx admired. High praise indeed.
Congrats!
Love & Peace, Clarence