Distinguished Artists is a Canadian interview television series , with no particular focus within the arts and entertainment industry. It profiles big names in music, comedy, drama, and literature.

Hosted by Emmy Award-winning writer Lorne Frohman, this interview series is filmed in front of an audience at Assembly Hall, near Humber College Lakeshore Campus. The format focuses around a main interview, then allowing the primarily student audience to ask questions in the time following the main segment.

Distinguished Artists is in fact the first network television show produced entirely by students of a college or university . Co-produced with TVO, the Humber School of Media Studies & Information Technology created, produced, wrote, shot and edited the series. Music students from the Humber School of Creative and Performing Arts wrote, arranged, and performed the series' theme song.

Episodes debut at 4 pm Saturdays, airing again the next day.

Interviewees

Date of initial broadcast listed after the name.

• Joan Rivers, 2 April 2005; comedienne, talk show host, awards pre-show host
• Joe Flaherty, 9 April 2005; comedian, voice actor
• Alistair MacLeod, 16 April 2005; short-story writer and novelist (No Great Mischief )
• Bill Holman and Jane Bunnett , 23 April 2005;
• Pat LaBarbera , 30 April 2005;

• Andrea Martin; comedienne
• Colin Mochrie; improv comedian
• Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara; comedy duo
• Edward Albee
• Michael Brecker
• Fiona Reid ; actress
• Paul Quarrington; author
• Jane Bunnett ; jazz musician
• Jayne Eastwood ; actress

External links

• TVO: Distinguished Artists