Paul Moth

Paul Boothby Simarin Moth was a fictional broadcaster on two CBC radio comedy shows: The Great Eastern and Sunny Days and Nights. He served as host on those two shows, which often featured comedic sketches of his personal life, presented as cinéma vérité in audio. Moth was portrayed by Newfoundland actor Mack Furlong. Moth was created by Furlong, Steve Palmer, Ed Riche and Glen Tilley.

The character resurfaced in March 2010 on urNews.ca, a satirical Canadian news website.

The character of Paul Moth had a very large backstory. Moth was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949, the day his province joined confederation as part of Canada. He was raised in a working-class family on Signal Hill road in the neighbourhood of Quidi Vidi. He received a harsh Fundamentalist Catholic education as a child.

In the late 1960s, Moth enrolled in Memorial University (or MUN) to study Political Science. However, he quick became enamoured with revolutionary marxist ideology, and formed the Viet MUN, which occupied the campus weight room as a protest. Moth also became enamoured with the drug culture of the 1960s, and began a long-standing series of narcotics and alcohol addictions that form a major part of his backstory.

After which time, he auditioned as announcer for a fictionalized version of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland (or BCN), and was hired to work during the early 1970s for the radio station's sports magazine show. He became disilliusioned with radio, and became a freelance writer and playwright.

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