| abstract | - Paul Bellini (born September 12, 1963 in Timmins, Ontario) is a Canadian comedy writer and television actor. Bellini is well-known figure in the Canadian television comedy industry due to his work on The Kids in the Hall and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He has worked on several projects with Josh Levy and PJ DeBoy. He has appeared in small parts on television shows and films. Bellini never spoke during his appearances on The Kids in the Hall (during most of which his only garment was a white bath towel wrapped around his waist) until the final episode: after the end credits, during which the cast is buried alive, Bellini approaches their grave, turns to the camera, and intones, "Thank God that's finally over." He then picks up a flower and proceeds to dance on their grave. Bellini was the prize in two contests run by the show. The first contest was "Touch Paul Bellini," in which the winner was granted the chance to gently poke a betoweled Bellini with a stick. On another season the contest winner won a lunch with him at the Ottawa airport. In 1998, Bellini made an autobiographical documentary, Bellini's Drive, which among other things explained what it is like to be the second-most famous person from Timmins (the first being Shania Twain). A gay man himself, he is currently a columnist for fab, a gay magazine in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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