Fossiltime 
(Ch Zero 1995-1998 R.I.P.)
Waaaaaay a long time ago, well before the
invention of standing upright, F&D used to host and produce a weekly
radio show called Ch. Zero on University of Toronto radio station
CIUT 89.5 FM. Oh how times have changed. Back then, their logo looked
like the faux-funky one on the left, but now it looks like the cool
and professional one on the right.
Between September 1995 and Saturday, August 29, 1998, Fast & Dirty wrote and performed over 550 sketches, songs, monologues, poems, and other weird fine goodness on the show.
First, thanks to the guests...
We had, as you can see below, an excellent assortment of guests that we interviewed either live or over the phone and/or had perform on the show. All guests received a complimentary can of Wink (the drink that rhymes with dink). And in no particular order, they were:
| Lisa Merchant and Janet Van De Graaf (WTN's Go Girl!), Moira Dunphy (The Chumps), Andrew Clark (Comedy columnist for The Toronto Star and eye Weekly), Matt Watts (Pale By Comparison, Archie), Samantha Reynolds, Ariana Smith (producer of Laugh-A-Delic Sundays), Derek Thompson (of both The Riot Act and Ick), Rick Wharton (Space Channel's "Conspiracy Guy" and producer of Rick's Improv Cafe), Joke Boy (Adam Sternbergh and David Haydn-Jones), Lisa Brooke & Shoshanna Sperling, Jamey Piedalue, Warren Wilson, Jerry Schaefer, Rochelle Wilson, Neil Muscott (producer of Shake the Monkey Tree, Freaky Fridays and Raising The Roof Comedy Festival), Marcel St. Pierre, Simon B. Cotter, Pamplemousse (Peter Windrem & Andrew Chapman), Rob Pincombe & Shelley Hoffman, Shane McDougall & Dave Martin, Kristeen von Hagen, Paul Tedeschini, Jean Paul, Glenn Christie, Lindsay Leese, Bruce Hunter, Sam Agro, Andrew Baranofski, Derra St. Denis (Actor/Producer of Acts With Pizazzz), Opiyo Oloyo (host of CIUT's Karibuni), Nik Beat (co-host of CIUT's Howl), Tommy Fisher, The Pharoah of Terror, Stoolfinger (Shawn Santalucia), Marie Gleason, Nick Carbone, Benita Fox, Mary Feeley, 3 Wet People (Duncan McKenzie, Amy Maggiacomo & Jason Taniguchi), Suzanne de Jonge, Tabitha Wells, Ophira Eisenberg, Paul Koster, Patti Medwid, Sonja Mills, Shafiq, K. G. Sambrano, J. Vincent Lem, Carolyn Meehan, Urban Myth (Todd Aiken, Nick Kindler, James Roussel & their director John Kalangis), Patricia Hammond, Ken Pak, Elise Dewsberry, Geordie Telfer, Caroline Azar, Michael McMurtry, Drew Leavy, Nick Johne, Christine Crosby, David Ackerman, Teresa Pavlinek & Ralph Chapman, Victoria Stoeckle, Big Boned (Alison Gadsby and Janice Williamson), Patty Jo & Bonnie, Rob Joy & Fusebox, Jim Clayton, Traveller, Monique Savin, Steve Gauci, Rose Bergeron, Alan Resnick, Brad Thomas (New York Actor), Laura Janeshewski, Greg Simpson, Mark Brownell & Liza Balkan, Treela Smith, Anne-Marie Scheffler, Linda Brokenshire, Kiersten Tough, Frank Macanulty, Wes Zaharuk, Roger Costa (of Monster Records), The Madri-Gals (Abby Zotz, Denise Norman & Trish O'Reilly), Robert Davis, Peter Holliday, The Mouth, Persona Non-Grata, Kim Lombard, Jean Bubba, Marion Law (Director of the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre) & Mike Wiseman, Bob Derkach (Musical Director of Second City), Paul Bates (The Stand-Ins, Second City National Touring Company), 3 Australian tourists, a pizza delivery guy, a poet who screams his works, a guy working the phones at the office of the Premier of Ontario, Gord's sister Joanne live from Waterloo, cartoonist Lynn Johnston!! ("For Better or For Worse"), and Roger Abbott and Don Ferguson!! (Royal Canadian Air Farce, SketchCom) |
Next, thanks to the fabulous technicians...
Because without them, we'd have just been two guys yakking to ourselves in a room, which is pretty well what we do nowadays. But there were some great and wonderful people who helped us out big time:
| The way cool Jeff ("J.C.") Cohen (from CIUT's Mods and Rockers, when we were on Mondays at midnight), all-around excellent gentleman Mervyn Hassanali, the technically wizardous Dave Bachner, the one-time only Greg the Rasta guy, the mellowly cool Ken Barrett (of CIUT's Caribuni), the always lovely Kara Gillies (from CIUT's By All Means), the Gen-X master blaster Max Douglas (a.k.a. Salgood Sam), who was the original "Channel Zero guy" and actually ran the show when we first started, and of course, the effervescent , our fabulous tunesmith-tigress technician/co-producer. |
Quick pics from our CIUT days! (Click on thumbnails to see full-sized grainy pics)
 July/98 -- Roger Abbott, Gord, Rob, Don Ferguson in the stairwell of CIUT, after they guested on our show and did a couple of sketches with us. It was a hoot! |
 Aug 29/98 --after the last broadcast of Ch Zero -- Gord, Jesse, Sonya (from By All Means, which was the show right after us), Rob, and Kara (By All Means and occasionally helped us too) |
 Nov 14/98 -- Ken, Rob, Gord & Cap'n Dave after we were on Cap'n Dave's Comedy Hour |
Thanks to one and all!
Light a fire, baby, you're all way too cool!
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What it was like to
write, organize & perform a weekly show.
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