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An early sketch comedy series that went through a number of different incarnations. Hosted by the comedy team of Johnny Wayne (28 May 1918 – 18 July 1990) and Frank Shuster (5 September 1916 – 13 January 2002). 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 ''
Their comedy has been referred to as literate comedy combined with a liberal amount of slapstick. They often mixed classic references, genre parodies, silly puns and bloodless violence in equal parts. A famous example being the retelling of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Julius Caesar]]'' as the modern, [[Film Noir|noir-ish]] detective story ''Rinse the Blood off My Toga''. They also parodied and spoofed then current events and popular culture such as ''All in the Royal Family'' (''[[Hamlet]]'' with ''[[All in The Family]]'') and ''[[Star Trek|Star Schtick]]'' and even ''[[Macbeth]]'' done as an in-period [[Police Procedural]].
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