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Bob Robertson
Political and Current Events Satire
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Fee Range: $5001 - $10,000 |
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Bob Robertson is one of Canada’s premier after-dinner entertainers with a resume of hundreds of performances from coast to coast in Canada. As well as entertaining at corporate and community events, in February 1987 he joined forces with Linda Cullen to begin a CBC Radio series called “Double Exposure”. It ran for ten and a half very successful years with an average weekly audience of over 300 thousand listeners. During that time, Double Exposure was nominated three times for the Actra Radio awards (The Nellies) winning for Best Comedy Program.
In 1994, Double Exposure began to write, produce and perform an annual New Year’s Eve television special on the national CBC TV network called “A Swift Kick in The Year End”. It ran for three years with exceptional ratings of over two million viewers. In 1997, Double Exposure was contracted by the CTV network to produce a weekly comedy program. As well as performing on camera and writing, Bob Robertson was one of the executive producers of the series. Double Exposure ran on CTV for three years until the spring of 2000. During that time it was nominated for six Gemini Awards including the Chrysler Canada “People’s Choice Award” for the six highest rated Canadian television programs. Double Exposure also won the U.S International Film and Video Festival’s Gold Camera Award as well as the Saskatoon Film and Video Festival’s Golden Sheaf Award. Bob continues to produce, write and perform in radio and television, including a CBC Television New Year’s Eve special, and as co-producer, writer and performer in Double Exposure’s ‘The Snides of March’, a critically acclaimed comedy review at Vancouver’s Waterfront Theatre, March of 2006.
For the past three years, Bob has been a contributor of humourous columns to the Globe and Mail. In 2004, Bob, as part of Double Exposure was inducted into the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2004.
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