Scott Feschuk & Scott Reid
The Political Satirist & The Political Insider
The Political Insider & the Humourist: together, Scott Feschuk and Scott Reid spent two years working side by side at the pinnacle of Canadian political power. Following careers in at the front lines of Canadian politics, Feschuk and Reid run one of Canada's most successful speechwriting and communications companies, Feschuk.Reid. Feschuk is a regular columnist with Maclean's magazine, while Reid is best known for his role as Senior Advisor and Director of Communications to Prime Minister Paul Martin. Their senses of humour combined with personal anecdotes and insights, offer their audiences an invaluable inside look at politics, communications and the media.
Scott Reid – the political insider: strategist, confidante, pundit.
Scott Feschuk – a humour columnist who overnight, and without even really asking, became chief speechwriter to the Prime Minister of Canada.
The insider and the outsider: together, they spent two years working side by side at the pinnacle of Canadian political power. Now they run a speechwriting and communications firm, Feschuk.Reid.
Scott Feschuk has been a writer at The Globe and Mail, The National Post and CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He currently writes a humour column and blog for Maclean’s magazine, and is the author of How Not to Completely Suck As A Parent and Searching for Michael Jackson’s Nose. Scott has won the Gold Medal for Humour at the National Magazine Awards. More impressively, he once covered the Oscars as a reporter and was mistaken as a valet by Faye Dunaway, who ordered him to go retrieve her car. (Spoiler alert: He didn’t.)
Scott Reid has advised many of Canada's leading corporations and political leaders. He was Senior Advisor and Director of Communications to Prime Minister Paul Martin. An expert in overcoming crisis and issues management challenges, Scott appears regularly as a commentator on CTV, CBC and TSN, in addition to writing for The Globe and Mail and Macleans.ca.
Together, they won the Pitch-It Comedy Competition at the 2007 Banff World Television Festival. To this day, no one quite understands how this happened.
Feschuk and Reid offer their audience an inside look at politics and communications, integrating humour and their unique experiences and perspective into the presentation. Being undeniably clever and candid, they will bring energy and insight to your next gathering.
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Inside Canadian Politics
A lot of people can talk about what's going on in federal politics – but not many can bring insight and humour in equal doses.
Scott Reid and Scott Feschuk have worked in politics, government and journalism. They've sat across from foreign leaders, guided Prime Ministers through times of crisis, appeared in the national media and advised corporate Canada on how to communicate with the public.
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January 2004How Not To Completely Suck as a New Parent
Are you tired of the earnest advice in conventional parenting books? Do you want to know what's really in your future as a new parent? Scott Feschuk and Paul Mather both know, all too well, and are happy to tell you with their trademark irreverence what it's really like to be a new parent. For instance, they tell you that by nine months your baby will inevitably have missed several milestones, sending you into a complete panic. And sooner or later you'll realize you're doing everything wrong. The solution is simple: just read a different childcare advice book.
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September 2003Searching for Michael Jackson's Nose: And Other Preoccupations of Our Celebrity-Mad Culture
In his first book, National Post columnist Scott Feschuk offers a hilarious, satirical take on trends in television and our peculiar obsession with the famous, the infamous, and the nature of Tom Cruise's sexuality. Searching for Michael Jackson's Nose romps through the birth and the future of reality television, takes readers to the all-star parties thrown each summer by the major American television networks, and makes the case that what the world needs now is more - yes, more! - showbiz award shows. It pokes fun at Hollywood's rich and renowned, and also at Steve Guttenberg. It both applauds and skewers our intensifying fascination with the profoundly inconsequential: tribal councils, celebrity interviews, the crude romantic exploits of bachelors and bogus millionaires.
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