Dan Lalande

Dan Lalande is a writer, critic, and cultural historian based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Dan’s career began in television as a staff writer on the hit preteen series "You Can’t Do That on Television," hailed as one of the 100 greatest sketch shows of all time by Rolling Stone. He enjoyed an accomplished career in animation, documentary, and comedy before penning five feature films, two of which were official selections at festivals in Palm Springs, Montreal, and Toronto.

Dan’s books include "The Drop Dead Funny ‘70s: American Film Comedies Year by Year"; "Heroes of the New Hollywood: Hoffman, Hackman, Nicholson, Pacino, Duvall, and De Niro in the ‘70s;" and "Girls Just Want to Have Funny: Female Film Comedies of the 1980’s."