We had our own club, a second company, a rehearsal space, offices, and not enough money to support the enterprise. So we started “touring” and this was the demo tape we put together to try and get gigs – which we did. We worked a lot in Northern Ontario – Playing Sudbury (5 times), Blind …
When you start in the entertainment business you do a lot of unpaid gigs – or as they’re usually called, Telethons.
Between 1979 and 1983 Myself, Rick Jones and John Tarzwell wrote and performed in something like a 1,000 radio commercials. We went from relative obscurity in Ottawa to winning National and International recognition for our radio advertising work. Most of the voicing was done by the inimitable and talented Rick Jones and John Tarzwell. This …
You Can’t Do That On Television was a sketch TV show, by young amateur actors, in true classic Nickelodeon style. It featured pre-teen and teenaged actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that of the United States Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and Saturday Night Live. Each episode had a specific theme normally relating to …
This was the first thing I ever did on film/tape. I, and the rest of the guys in the video, had been doing radio comedy at CKCU – Radio Carleton. After we left school, we moved onto forming a production company and doing comedy bits for stage and TV.
Start some energy happening around yourself and you’ll have people showing up at your door that you’ve always wanted to meet.
