Amazon has greenlit a Canadian version of LOL, to be hosted by Jay Baruchel and based on the Japanese format Hitoshi Matsumoto Presents Documental, in which comics compete to try and get each other to laugh while keeping a straight face themselves.
Baruchel, the Canadian-born star of Goon and How to Train Your Dragon, will present the new Amazon original series, LOL: Last One Laughing Canada.
The comedy competition series will be shot in Toronto by Insight Productions, with the final comedian left standing earning a grand prize donation for the charity of their choice.
There's no word on the competing Canadian comedic actors and stand-up artists to compete in the six-part Amazon original series.
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