#don cullen

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1985.

Wayne and Shuster criticized for perpetuating racial stereotypes.

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Don Cullen, the Canadian actor and Wayne and Shuster regular, who gave Lorne Michaels his first producing job.

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August 1972.

A young Dan Aykroyd joined Rosemary Radcliffe (later the co-star of the King of Kensington) in a "satirical musical revue" behind Eaton's in Montreal.

The Pickle was directed by Don Cullen, a comic performer who frequently appeared on The Wayne and Shuster Hour.

The review primarily satirized Canadian politics, in particular Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield and Liberal Party leader Pierre Trudeau.

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1969.

Pierre Trudeau references in an “obvious, tired and flat” Wayne and Shuster special - with musical guests The Guess Who

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Don Cullen was the only Canadian in the cast of Beyond the Fringe when it played Broadway as Beyond the Fringe '65. Cullen ran the Bohemian Embassy in Toronto, a coffee house venue where Margaret Atwood did poetry readings, Joni Mitchell played music, and Lorne Michaels produced revues - long before any of them were famous.

Cullen later became a longtime member of the Wayne and Shuster repertory company on CBC Television.

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The Bohemian Embassy was where Lorne Michaels had his first job in showbiz. His job was to book new talent. Among the recruits were Don Cullen, a comedian in the touring company of Dudley Moore’s Beyond the Fringe.

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Don Cullen and Barry Baldaro starred in a Canadian road company of Beyond the Fringe in 1966.

Together they operated the Bohemian Embassy in Toronto, a small coffeehouse that attracted progressive actors, poets and musicians.

In 1965, they were approached by ambitious Lorne Lipowitz who directed their two-man comedy revue. It was the first professional job for the man who changed his name to Lorne Michaels.