Editing Stephen Leacock (section)

== Adaptations ==
Two Leacock short stories have been adapted as [[National Film Board of Canada]] animated shorts by [[Gerald Potterton]]: ''[[My Financial Career]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfb.ca/film/My_Financial_Career/|title=My Financial Career|author=National Film Board of Canada|work=NFB.CA}}</ref> and ''[[The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=14202|title=National Film Board of Canada|work=nfb.ca}}</ref> [[Sunshine Sketches (TV series)|''Sunshine Sketches'']], based on ''[[Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town]]'', aired on [[CBC Television]] in 1952–1953; it was the first Canadian broadcast of an English-language dramatic series, as it debuted on the first night that television was broadcast in Toronto.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A//www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php%3Fid%3D750|title=Canadian Communications Foundation – Fondation des Communications Canadiennes|work=broadcasting-history.ca|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060811/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadcasting-history.ca%2Fprogramming%2Ftelevision%2Fprogramming_popup.php%3Fid%3D750|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> In 2012, a screen adaptation based on ''[[Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town]]'' was aired on [[CBC Television]] to celebrate both the 75th anniversary of the CBC and the 100th anniversary of Leacock's original collection of short stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/sunshinesketches/index.html|title=Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town|date=2 March 2012}}</ref> The recent screen adaptation featured [[Gordon Pinsent]] as a mature Leacock. In the summer of 2018, a live musical theatre adaptation by Craig Cassils and Robin Richardson based on ''[[Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town]]'' premiered at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words and the [[RuBarb TheatreFest]] in [[Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.mjindependent.com/music-and-arts/2018/7/25/sunshine-sketches-in-moose-jaw | title=Sunshine Sketches in Moose Jaw | work=Moose Jaw Independent | author=Jordan Bosch | date=2018-07-25 | access-date=2021-01-15}}</ref>

Canadian stage actor [[John Stark (actor)|John Stark]] was most noted for ''An Evening with Stephen Leacock'', a long-running one-man show.<ref>[[Carole Corbeil]], "Stark as Leacock is skillful and witty". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', 23 April 1980.</ref> An album of his show, released on Tapestry Records in 1982, received a [[Juno Award]] nomination for [[Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year|Comedy Album of the Year]] at the [[Juno Awards of 1982]].<ref>Liam Lacey, "McKenzies vs. Rush for best album Juno". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', 2 March 1982.</ref> Stark also later produced a television film adaptation of ''Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town'', as well as a stage musical based on Leacock's short story "The Great Election".