Paul Kenneth Willis (August 2, 1947 – November 24, 1999) was a Canadian sketch comedian, most noted as one half of the comedy duo La Troupe Grotesque with Michael Boncoeur in the 1970s and 1980s.
[1] Both natives of Vancouver, British Columbia, where they were also childhood friends of cartoonist Lynn Johnston, Willis and Boncoeur formed La Troupe Grotesque in 1968.
[3] They were also noted for the edginess of some of their comedy; after the news of the Jonestown massacre broke in November 1978, their show that evening opened with the duo distributing Kool-Aid to the audience.
[14] Over the next few years, he also created the comedy special Investigation of a Corporation Above Suspicion, about a political takeover of the CBC,[16] and the serial Windsor Hassle, a satire of the British royal family.
[17] He was the creator and executive story editor of the short-lived CBC sitcom Mosquito Lake in 1989,[18] but would later describe the resulting product as one that he lost creative control of, and was never fully satisfied with.