Breakthrough Entertainment has signed an exclusive deal with Mark McKinney to develop new comedies.

The development pact follows The Kids in the Hall star working with Breakthrough on a string of comedies like Rocket Monkeys and Less Than Kind.

“We want to be the home working with the best comedy people in Canada,” Breakthrough executive producer Ira Levy told Playback on news of expanding ties to McKinney.

The indie also produced the mash-up comedy Picnicface that featured an eight-member sketch comedy troupe that migrated from YouTube to Canada’s Comedy Network.

On Picnicface, Breakthrough followed a strategy of pairing emerging comedy talent with an experienced showrunner, in that case Mark McKinney as an executive producer.

Besides TV comedy, Breakthrough is also branching out into theatrical chucklers by distributing titles like the Jim Annan-starrer Unlucky, co-directors Sandra Feldman and Gary Carter’s Please Kill Mr. Know it All, and Jason Priestley’s Cas and Dylan.

Peter Williamson, Levy’s partner at Breakthrough, told Playback that McKinney and other Canadian talent in Los Angeles can now return home to make comedies that can be sold back into the U.S. market.

“We’ve seen where Canadians went down to Hollywood and did well with comedy – Seth Rogan, Mike Myers. Now they have the opportunity to do great deals in Canada,” he said.