You are ruining my beautiful voice!
March 21, 2017 5:19 AM   Subscribe

Bob Robertson, one half of the duo that taught a generation of odd Canadian children their politics on Saturday mornings, is dead.
posted by clawsoon (13 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
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posted by Mogur at 6:05 AM on March 21, 2017


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posted by chapps at 6:45 AM on March 21, 2017


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Miss their show - nothing as good for skewering our leadership since the 90's.
posted by jkaczor at 6:56 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]


Double Exposure was a great show.

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posted by GuyZero at 7:00 AM on March 21, 2017


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I wonder if he could Smell His End Coming?
posted by Kabanos at 7:29 AM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]


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posted by sardonyx at 8:10 AM on March 21, 2017


Possibly the dictionary definition of "CBC funny" but still loved it.

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posted by Cosine at 8:47 AM on March 21, 2017


Air Farce was a cringe-fest but I recall Double Exposure actually being funny at times. I still find myself thinking about Bob Robertson as René Lévesque (iirc) singing '50 Ways to Leave Canada.'
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posted by Flashman at 9:58 AM on March 21, 2017


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posted by sfred at 11:04 AM on March 21, 2017


I thought that Air Farce made the transition to television much better than Double Exposure, perhaps because Air Farce had been playing in front of live audiences for a long time and knew how to draw genuine audience laughter. They would stoop as low as necessary for the guffaws. Double Exposure, on the other hand, wasn't really a laugh-a-minute show, at least not at the pace demanded by a live television audience, but the craft they put into their impressions and songs was, for a weird kid like me, wonderful.

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posted by clawsoon at 11:36 AM on March 21, 2017


This was a funny show. They were both so good. I could never figure out why the very unfunny Air Farce got the loudest kudos.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 3:12 PM on March 21, 2017


I wasn't really a fan, but their skit where Jean Chretien was scraping the operatic high notes as 'The Phantom of The Ottawa' was deeply hilarious..
posted by ovvl at 4:55 PM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]


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posted by bibliotropic at 7:43 AM on March 22, 2017


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