"John Blanchard" is a Canada/Canadian television director and Television producer/producer.

He is best known for his directorial work on the sketch comedy series Second City Television/SCTV, The Kids in the Hall, CODCO, MADtv and the talk show The Martin Short Show for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Talk Show.

He also directed episodes of the sitcoms Grounded for Life, Wanda at Large, Cavemen (TV series)/Cavemen, and Unhitched, as well as a number of television films one of his notable films being The Last Polka (1985) starring John Candy and Eugene Levy. He also directed the direct-to-video Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth.

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