Elvira Kurt
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"Elvira Kurt" is a Canada/Canadian comedian, and the host of the game show Spin Off (Canadian game show)/Spin Off. She hosted the entertainment satire/talk show PopCultured with Elvira Kurt, which began on The Comedy Network in Canada in 2005. That show's style was similar to The Daily Show/The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It was cancelled due to poor ratings in early 2006. She is of Jewish Hungary/Hungarian descent.

Coming out/Openly lesbian, she coined the term "fellagirly" to describe herself and other lesbians whose style is a blend of butch and femme, as opposed to strictly one or the other. Her comedic style relies heavily on complaints about celebrity culture, her own appearance, and the effects of aging.

She performed at the inaugural We're Funny That Way! comedy festival in 1997, and appeared in the festival's documentary film in 1998.

In 2007, Kurt hosted the second season of the gay wedding series My Fabulous Gay Wedding/First Comes Love (which originated in Canada under the title My Fabulous Gay Wedding). She is a judge on The Second City's Next Comedy Legend, a frequent guest on the CBC Radio show The Debaters, and a weekly guest on Q (radio show)/Q where she does a "Cultural Hall of Shame" segment each week, typically on the last half hour on the Friday morning broadcast.

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We're not going to stop the show and say, 'Now we're having our Canadian moment,' ... There's no need to elevate its importance, because then we're saying that Canadian entertainment needs to be given a leg up, when that's absolutely not true.

It's not important to me to talk about it all the time, but it comes up when it's relevant.