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Formed in the mid-1990's when Robert Hawke asked Gord Oxley to guest with him on the CIUT-FM Mondays-at-midnight radio show "Channel Zero," Fast & Dirty was soon born, spanning two millennia and creating comedy sketches and songs that covered topics from A to B.
& more. C to Z too, with an especial affinity for "S," as in "Sexy," "Slinky," and "Salacious." They loved a good dirty turn of phrase (still do), they had some successes and some scrapes, just like anybody doing this kind of thing, and they had buckets of fun along the way.
Dialling things forward to the 21st Century with the future at our doorstep, the Fast & Dirty boys still do the occasional set together, do some improv together as a duo or with other good folks, and still collaborate in other non-F&D projects. Now go poke around the site.
Rob and Gord will perpetually toss this guitar around until End of Days.
People
Robert Hawke is a man of many talents and disciplines. In addition to being a gifted comedian and musician, he is also a voiceover artist, painter, writer, and playwright whose most recent work (co-created with Michael Cohen), "NormVsCancer: A Terminally Funny One-Man Show," was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award and has been performed in Prague, San Francisco, New York City and Toronto. Rob also authored "Kicking Cancer's Ass: A Light-Hearted Guide to the Fight of Your Life," which is available online right here. In short: Rob gathers no moss.
Gord Oxley is a man of many talents and disciplines, such as the power of copying & pasting. He enjoys performing improv around Toronto and beyond, and teaching it for Bad Dog, Black Swan & non-animal-named places too. For 7 years he produced "Comedy on the Danforth," and has taught himself to play guitar well enough to fake his way through several improv shows as a short-term musical accompanist. Currently he is writing, teaching, doing voice auditions, some creative computer work and other stuff that actors say they do to sound cool.
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We've had the privilege of performing in many great venues over the years. In Toronto, we've done live shows at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, The Rivoli, Second City, Bad Dog Theatre, Isabel Bader Theatre, Clinton's, and countless cafes, bars, restaurants and other assorted places which still may or may not exist nowadays. We've done shows throughout the Greater Toronto Area and beyond including Montreal, Oakville, Peterborough, Barrie and more. We were pleased to do many appearances for various programmes on local and national television and radio, including CBC-TV, CBC-Radio, CTV, Rogers Cable 10, and CIUT-FM, as well as Dutch National Radio and Dr. Demento. Hopefully NASA will put some of our recordings on the next outbound interstellar greeting spacecraft.
All and all, not too shabby for 2 guys, a guitar, and a warped sensibility – and we can bring this not-too-shabbiness to you for a very reasonable price, oh yes, our very special friend.
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