Canada's WGC Gives 'Less Than Kind' Top TV Award

6:10 AM PDT 4/12/2011 by Etan Vlessing

Winning screenwriter Chris Sheasgreen gives shout out to late Canadian actor Maury Chaykin, star of the homegrown HBO Canada comedy.

TORONTO -- Chris Sheasgreen won the best comedy competition for his Less Than Kind episode Coming Home at the Writers Guild of Canada Awards Monday night, and promptly paid tribute to the series’ late lead actor Maury Chaykin. “We miss him,” Sheasgreen, who co-created the HBO Canada comedy and already earned the best comedy writing trophy at the 2010 Gemini Awards, told a packed WGC Awards gala in Toronto on Monday night.