‘executive producer. Nick ‘Orchard: say’ live:she ~ Mondays at 10:00 on VTV.Chaanel 9. | Duo halfway through first season From page W audience before the taping of ain event. Christine Taylor and Tom Comet combine dangerous stunts and comedy into their act, “[fsomething’s really dangerous, we try and use an audience member, because ifone of us gets hurt, then the other one has to find someone else”, explains Tom. That sounds... logical. On with the show... Linda Cullen: What are you going to do about overcrowding in Alberta hospitals? ‘Bob Robertson (as Jean Cretien): Well, 1 got on the: blowtorch: ta’ Premier: Ralph Clown, and Isayto him ‘Don’t fool around with Medicare, it was invented next door in acha...roo0n, you, know, it was invented = ther by, ahh... Kirk Douglas, I) think it was, and I,say to him, _Mr. Clown, be very ‘careful you know because if you aren't youll destroy Medicare and your ‘liver at the same time.’ Linda Cullen: As we near the Millennium what would: you like to say to Canadians? “Cretien: | would like to.-give them-a mias- sage, I- would like to *say to all Canadian, be “prepared for anything te/happen. For cxany ‘ple, the -other- day T ‘was: shake this old guy end sud- “denly the. guy he collapsed ‘right in front of I iuckily*I-know how-to perform VCR; and his chances were remote | tell vou that! But; 1’ promise [will run in the next : and it. will: bea. big. ene for me “because it will be my turd. , Linda‘Cullen: Thank-vou for your warm entiments, Mr. Prime Minister. ' ‘The hour. taping whizzed by, and believe : watch ° ughter you hear when y hdtcanned. It’s 100% audience duo. known for their clever ane, thi hands with ; Robertson and Ms. Cullen as they were on their way to celebrate the halfway mark of their first season on television. Maria Verdicchio: Do you miss radio? Bob Robertson: No, we really truly exhaust- ed all the possibilities of what we could come up with for radio in 10 and a half years, 39 shows per year, over 4,000 sketch- es there were only so many ways of doing things. Linda Cullen: I kind of hesitated, I miss the sleep-ins we got to have, veu get to sleep in much more’ on radio. MV: Ard you could do radio wearing your sweats, or housecoat. LC: Well, the truth is we never wore any clothes doing the radio show... BR: We were naked! LC: We didn’e have an doubts about leaving radio. - MV: Have you ever received any flak from politicians?. LC: Nor really, the most serigus case. we - ever encountered, was when we-had j just got on the air, around that time,. Claire Hoisbook’s, Friends in High Places came out. Actually the book bhadn’s come Out, excerpts were in Sun‘news- papers across the country. So he had stories in there about. Brian Mulroney’s wilder days, how he'd been drunk at a wedding and passed out in his food, and Mila swearing at Peter Mansbridge, calling him Sunday nignts, he was doing Sunday Report at thar time. So we did sketches relat- ed to those stories, and Donna-Logan {head of CBC Radio ai the rime) had been called up by one of Mulroney's assistants, and he was suggesting that they were ready to sue us. _ And she had said, ‘Have you thought this through, have you seen how this is going to play-out in the papers if vou suc 2 comedy show?” We thoughr it would be really funny if it did end-up in court, I can imagine someone asking, “So! what is :it,) Mr. - Mulroney, that you were offended by? Well: let's s play the offending sketch. to the court shall we?” ““BReAnd thar was the last we heard of it. In fact, now they call us for tapes. “When Barbara McDougall was exter: VARIETY. CLUB. ‘SPONSORS A ‘specially trained canine: © companion has made a world of who lives in Victoria, BC. “Todd” was trained by P.A.D.S. and now “accompanies, Chantelle wherever ~ she goes. nal affairs minister and she went out of town, one ef her assistants would tell her that she'd heard a skit Double Exposure had done on the weekend, and she'd say, you have to get me a copy. So we'd geo a call from the external affairs ministry requesting a tape of the show, The first time thaz hap- pened we were a little nervous. LC: But look whaw’s happened over the years, all the politicians want to go on every- body’s shows. BR: All the comedy shows, Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and now Double Exposure. We went out and. gor Cretien, Manning, Jean Charest, Sheita Copps... LC: They all did little: creerings when we first went on the air, but then we: said, ‘That’s it, no more!” because they were get- ting a litele bit slutty actually! BR: So it’s just. the oppasite, they seem to love comedy shows. MV: So there are no issues that you try’: to steer clear of either? BR: No. Nor really. When vou’re writing comedy, comedy is what drives you, and if it’s funny enough, unless i ir’s libelous « ora wurd yee can’: say on T.V., you! go. ah and do it and damn the consequences. LC: 1 guess the most recent example of peo: ple steering clear of something was: v Diana was killed last year.-The funny thing: is, “this is what gets me, about the. way-the: public reacts ‘ro things.. Sonny: Bono: hits. tree and kilis himsclf “and. the’ next-day. they're making jokes abour it, but Dian was ‘hands otf, you van re touch her.’ We what we were bursting to do atth example, was to make jokes about how ther .. Was a heirdresser in London who was, havin, women. demanding. to: * dike Diana’s. He, was ‘making’ over fist, and he was ene atthe and say’ ing, ‘This is my Ww become malities yourselv LC and BR: NOOOO HAbsot UC: And have People hate us! We ple to like us. Lc: They don’t mak “BR: I think, to be have, some desire for raw Be want rarings! : Layne Christensen knows the ins, the outs and the up and comers of the fashion scene and writes about © them with ‘sty ‘style, verve.and. a lot-of ciass.every. Sunday ae in the North Shore News. —_ sh. Columbia. for‘ its: generous on iat ion of $12, 000 which sistance ‘dog for. 10-year-old Chantele, who. has: -“sJoin in Variéty Club's’ | - . & \ 8 11th annual “Dog-a-thon” |. aly Tis ? North Vancouver. | call 320- 050. 18 at Mahon, Park: BN sr deta pate ‘ . al 1 stm y 7 PA be toe ee