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{{quote|''So fair a foul I have not seen!
''Ancient knave with heart as black
''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.