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as coat you wear upon your back,
get thee a pair of glasses, get thee
to an optometrist!''|'''Rocky''' in ''[http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/anthology/baseball.pdf The Shakespearean Baseball Game: A Comedy of Errors, Hits, and Runs]''}}
An early sketch comedy series that went through a number of different incarnations. Hosted by the comedy team of Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster. The earliest version was ''Shuster & Wayne'', a radio program they were given as a result of their earlier radio work ''The Wife Preservers''. The next show was ''The Wayne and Shuster Show'' created for [[CBC]] radio in 1946 after they left the army after the second world war. There was a weekly television series in the 1950s, but that gave way to the better known appearances on ''The [[Ed Sullivan Show]] '' (where they appeared ''67'' times!) and their monthly CBC specials that ran from the early 1960s to the 1980s.
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* [[Aside Comment]], [[Aside Glance]]: frequently, especially in Noir parodies.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: They ''never'' pass up an opportunity. ''Ever''.
** From ''The Shakespearean Baseball Game: A Comedy of Errors, Hits, and Runs'', discussing the starting lineup:
{{quote|'''Manager:''' Thou at the shortstop’s spot shall play.
And you three guarding your accustomed bags:
Sam the first, Bill the second,
and [[Richard III|Richard the third]].}}
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: occasionally, the boys notice the audience, the sound effects, the soundtrack...
* [[Camera Screw]]: an early silent sketch involving the two painting the interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The camera is on an angle so that the tower looks vertical, but the pair and their equipment are
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: The feature story of one episode was about a musician selling his soul to the Devil in exchange for becoming the greatest player for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
* [[His Name Is]] (A running joke in ''Rinse the Blood off My Toga'')
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]] (Also a running joke in ''Rinse the Blood off My Toga'')
* [[Large Ham]]: Oh, yes. Usually Johnny,
* [[Long Runners]] (Wayne and Shuster's first show, ''The Wife Preservers'', aired in 1941.)
* [[Mind Screw]]: Several. An example, from ''Rinse the Blood off My Toga'':
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