Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Doo Doo the Clown: Toronto Mike'd #864

Episode Date: June 9, 2021

Mike chats with Doo Doo the Clown about his lengthy career as a children's entertainer, appearing in Billy Madison with Adam Sandler, performing at festivals including the Calgary Stampede and CNE, his relationship with Stu Stone and DJ Farbsie, and his real-life role as hero.

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He's the real estate agent who's ripping up the Mimico real estate scene. Learn more at realestatelove.ca. I'm Mike from torontomike.com. And joining me this week is the one and only Doo-Doo the Clown. Unbelievable! Hey, thanks for having me there, Mr. Toronto Mike. Unbelievable! Doo-Doo, what a pleasure. Congrats to you. You've been vaccinated.

Double vaccinated? I even wanted to go for a triple, but they wouldn't let me. They go, two's enough. I like things in three, but two, they said, nope, you're done. Finished. Get out of here. Awesome. I'm happy for you. I'm halfway there. I'm just, I got to wait a little bit more before I get my second shot, but happy for you. Is it true that you're off to the Calgary Stampede? which is great news for the Red River X, which is the end of August, the Saskatoon X and the Regina exhibition. But Calgary has waiting for the government to approve the smaller stages. Right now they've approved, from what I understand, the big stages with spread out seating, but nothing is indoor. And what happened was we had a schedule here that it would start in Brandon, Manitoba,

go across the West, hit Saskatoon and get back for the C&E. But because the C&E is not happening, all the fairs have switched dates for this year, hoping to open up for the end of July. Right. So we'll see. We'll see. Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you because the Calgary Stampede needs a little doo-doo, I'd say. I love you. I love you. You know, it's funny you say that because I do agree because, you know, a long time ago, somebody asked, you know, every day there should be a little doo-doo in your life. And you know what? It's all good because my clown name originally started off as Doodles. Oh. And what happened was there was an ad in the paper. And as a joke, someone said it's Doodoo the Clown. And Jay Leno picked up on it on The Tonight Show. So I became his joke.

on the Tonight Show. So I became his joke. And so I stuck with it. It's a great handle. Like, you know, Doodles is fine. But Doodoo the clown, like to me, that's, that's the winner. So smart move. Well, it's kind of funny, because I tell people it's not Doodoo, it's Doodoo. And, and then also, when I work in other cities cities or I work in the islands, I always say doodoo means happiness in Canada. And they all go, oh, great, great, good job. Unbelievable. So later in this in this conversation, I'm going to play a clip of, you know, a news anchor basically, you know, laughing at having to say, you know, doo-doo in a serious news story. Oh, I love it. I love it. There's actually about a dozen of those out there.

But, and they've made it all over, they've traveled all over the world on YouTube. Amazing. We're going to dive deep into that moment because that's sort of your viral moment. But since we're still just chatting quickly about the Calgary Stampede, fellow FOTM, so doo-doogary Stampede, fellow FOTM.

So, Dudu, you're now an FOTM. That's Friend of Toronto Mike. So, welcome to the club. Splash and Boots have been FOTMs for several years now. I love them. I love them. I love them. So, here's the question from Splash and Boots,

and I'm very interested in your reply. Ask Dudu about the after parties he would throw at the Calgary Stampede. Some of our favorite touring memories with him. Okay, spill the goods here, Dudu, like real talk. What was going on in these after parties? You have to remember one thing that you'll understand as I tell the story. I am also a family man. I'm also a children's performer,

also appeared on many shows, on Treehouse, YTV, theme parks. So I have always watched everything I do. Certain fairs and festivals, I even hire people to carry my stuff around with me and keep an eye on me and make sure when I do photos I'm very you know aware of you know where my hands you know just just things that I would appreciate being a father and so I've always thought you know when I do a fair and festival wouldn't it be nice to be the one to organize a get together

at the end of a fair or during the fair where all the performers and, and, you know, some of our bosses and maybe some, you know, a few extra guests would come and join us. And we, it all started off with in Calgary after we have quite a few days where we have to get up at six in the morning. Now, a lot of people don't know this, especially, uh, most of us, most of Canada, if you haven't been to the stampede, you don't know this, but they have breakfasts that start at 7am and people line up from 5am.

Wow. They allow, believe it or not, 20,000 people to line up. So they use the whole grandstand. It's quite, quite spectacular. But after all that, we get to line up. So they use the whole grandstand. It's quite, quite spectacular. But after all that, we get to sleep in. So one of those nights, I've always created this fun, do to the clown, party bash. And the first year was in a little tiny condo. And that's probably what Splashin' Boots was talking about the first one because they were there. They were there for a lot of them. It was always done just us. It's basically we would have a DJ. Can you picture a one-bedroom bachelor that I rented with 60 people inside? Just having food, a little bit

of soft drinks, music, dancing, but we're all squished in and we have photos of it and it's just so much fun and as time went on i realized that you know we have to expand so now what i've done is i've made a deal in every town with a restaurant or a club that we can all go to after right and just enjoy and now our bosses come out and it's it's they've become quite fun i mean picture you know 60 performers all in one room just you know we're talking hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of entertainment just chilling listen i i can tell you because i've kicked out the jams of splash and boots and i can tell you that they're they're a party like i bet you they'd be a blast at these doo-doo after parties so they are amazing. You know, I'm so proud of them, speaking about them.

I've been in this business. This is going to be 40 years for me. 40 years. I think they're, I'm guessing, I'm just guessing, but I think it's 18 years. And, you know, right from the beginning, we could see that they were heading in the direction to where they are today.

And that's why I'm so proud of them. No, really. I've shared stages with them all over the country. I've had them at some of our shows. They've been to family parties, and I consider them family. And it's funny, because wherever you go, you meet people and you fall in love with people. And, you know, sometimes they become friends forever. And I'll tell you that Splashin' Boots, I'm just so proud of them and what they've accomplished and that they stayed humble and they're good to their fans. And that's all that matters. That's all that matters. So shout out to Splashin' Boots.

I think they might have just won another Juno, actually. They did. They did. And I'm so happy. We actually all had a little party here for them. So it was nice. Nice. Now, speaking of family, so sometimes friends become like family, as you said, friends forever. Please tell us. So the FOTMs who are listening, they have now heard, as I record, I think we've had 64 weeks of what we've been calling Pandemic Friday. So once a week to get through this pandemic,

I've been meeting with my good friends, Cam Gordon and Stu Stone. In fact, tomorrow night, Stu Stone will be in my backyard because we're going to be kicking out the jams part of Pandemic Friday, and it's going to be a blast. So tell us now,

because this blew my mind when I first learned it. How are you, due to the clown, related to Stu Stone? Well, first, I don't know. I'm sure all your guests know about Stu Stone. Just before I tell you, I have to tell you a quick Stu Stone story. Oh, please take your time. We love Stu Stone stories. I have known him, believe it or not, since, since well we have pictures you can ask stew to show you i have pictures of him and i was at his birthday party when he was little yeah okay and i have great shots and great memories i just love him but anyways he first of all i don't know if everybody knows but he was part of some crazy TV shows, worldwide shows like the Jamie Kennedy experiment, which rocked.

But one day I turned on Jimmy Kimmel out of the blue, out of the blue. And who's on? He's rapping. I'm dying. I couldn't believe it. On the Jimmy Kimmel, like Stu Stone gets around. He is my rock star. And I just think he's very special. He is related. His mother and my cousin's first aunt's cousin and sister are related through marriage. So he's like a cousin of some sort? Oh, he's like blood. He is related.

We are together. And in fact, he is first cousins with my nephew. Okay. So before you even drop, I have a question from Cam Gordon because I said, hey, Doodoo's coming on. You got any questions? He's like, has Doodoo the Clown

ever seen his nephew DJ Farbsy scratch in person? He rocks. He has got such a reputation. He should be, I don't know how it works in that world. But he should be one of those guys that, you know, you go to a fair, and you know, you can't get in because that's how good he is. Yes, I've seen him but not live only recordings because, you know, when we have family get togethers, you know, I don't think he's carrying his it's like when we have family get togethers, I don't think I'm carrying my rubber nose with me, you know when we have family get-togethers you know i don't think he's carrying his it's like when we have family get-togethers i don't think i'm carrying my rubber nose with me you know like

you know i take breaks but yeah he does rock he is so talented and uh it's his passion so you know what way to go and that is my nephew wow so we're blowing some pandemic friday minds and if not the all the fotms and anybody who's fallen in love with Pandemic Friday over the past 18 months or so. Because we've learned, okay, so you're related to Stu Stone. And your nephew is DJ Farbzy, who's been probably mentioned. I'd say he's been mentioned an easy 20 times on these Pandemic Friday recordings. Because both Cam Gordon and Stu Stone are very friendly with DJ Farbsy. I love it.

I love it. But Stu has made me laugh at so many different things that he's done over the years. I was hit not knowing that there's different versions of his song, Circle, Circle. Not knowing. So here I am at Canada's Wonderland. Big, huge screen. And I'm hosting a show live. And I see him sitting in the audience.

And I get the tech, quick, Google this song with this guy. And the next thing you know, on the big jumbo screen in front of 2000 people, circle, circle, dot, dot. But let's just put it this way. Thank goodness it was just a little clip. That was the one that wasn't for kids. We got it off pretty quick. You got to get the radio edit when you're dealing with Stu Stone.

I'm learning. I'm a clown. I'm learning. Here's a great question for you. Maybe actually I was going to ask this great question, but first let me ask for the origin story, like the doo-dooclown superhero origin story. How does this all begin for you?

What makes you decide you're going to be a clown? Well, it was a total accident. I am the youngest of five boys. And I was babysitting 40 years ago my first niece and nephew, who were obviously in their 40s. And I had a friend that was going to university and knocked at the door in a clown suit. And I freaked out. I was like, whoa, what are you doing here?

What are you doing? And he was paying his way through university. He picked up a job clowning around, you know, doing jobs. But back then, this is how old Doodoo the Clown is. Back then, minimum wage was $2.30 an hour. Anyways, he offered me $25 an hour 40 years ago to help him out. And I thought, ah, that's ridiculous. Ah, that's ridiculous.

But I tried it. And believe it or not, the first place he took me to practice was Hugh McMillan. I don't know if it was called that back then. But Hugh McMillan, the Children's Hospital, we did it for free. He wanted me to practice. And you know, I went every year for about 30 years back there to do a show for the kids. Just the last 10 years or so with exchanges and stuff. And there always seemed to be booked up. And but I do have my name on the list and hoping to go back. But that was my first experience. The interesting thing is, is that he did it for one reason. This is really important. I tell people he did it for one reason.

He didn't love the clowning. He did it for the money and he did it so that he could go to university. And he is actually one of the designers of the Ford 150. He's a big executive and he's been there for like 30 years. I fell in love with it. I should have done it for the money. That's what I should have done. I should have done it for the money. That's what I should have done. Do I get something wrong? Keep rolling those nickels. We need them. Anyways. No, I fell in love with it and did it for the love of doing it. And, and obviously as a living and got to travel around the world. I mean, there's been a hundred places I went around the world and I'm honored every day. I never take it for granted. Um, if I'm available, um, to do a show that's for free and it's for a charitable organization, if I'm free, I'm there. Um, I just got back before the pandemic. I was in the middle East. Um, I did a trip with, uh, crafting for a cure, which is just amazing. Uh, we did Jamaica for them. We've done Australia for them. And it's,

uh, it's basically when you go to a hospital children, um, there's nothing for them. We've done Australia for them. And it's, it's basically when you go to a hospital children, there's nothing for them to play with, because all the toys are usually dirty or whatever. So it's little kits of arts and crafts and stuff. And this company started from scratch. And it happens to be my neighbor, and we fell in love with the charity. And I've been supporting that all over the all over the world ever since. What's it like when you're, you know, let's say you're performing in front of a child who's, you know, in the hospital with an illness,

but what is it like to, you put that smile on their face, it's almost like a reprieve from the reality of their day-to-day, like, how does that feel that you kind of- It's medicine, medicine to your heart, it really is. Do you know that my children, all of them have come with me? For instance, I spend a month every year in Jamaica. I work at a resort.

Every week we take one day off and I've done this since they were born. And my kids have this for the rest of their life. We either go to hospitals, orphanages. We've gone to school houses where they've never seen an entertainer in their life. And we've done this in other countries also. But the feeling you get, I always made a joke. I always said if I won the lottery, because that's my only weakness. I don't have a lot of bad habits. I used to have a bad habit of eating seven days a week Chinese food because that's my favorite. But I stopped during the pandemic and I lost 75 pounds. Not that Chinese food is bad. It's what I ate that was bad.

But good for you. Yeah. So I've done that, got my knees fixed. I'm younger, I'm happier. But I have to tell you that the most happy I am performing is when it's for something like that. I've been doing, I don't know if you've ever heard or your, your, your audience out there, but there's places all over Toronto called safe Haven. And what it is, is basically if somebody is confined to a wheelchair or needs, you know, care all the time and a family just wants a little bit of a break for a week, you know, out of their whole year. And to me, it's like the most spectacular place for a family that can, you know, just give themselves one week out of 300 million days of the year. And so I used to take my kids there.

That's pretty extreme sometimes because you have kids that, you know, are wheelchairs that can barely do anything. But in my heart, I know they're listening to me and they're smiling and I feel it. So, yeah, there is the benefits of performing. Unbelievable. I have to ask you this question, which is, because you mentioned you go to like family events, you might not be dressed up as Doodoo the Clown. Is Doodoo the Clown, is that the primary career for you?

Or is this something you also do? Like, are you an accountant on the side? I'm a lawyer. No. No, I'm a full-time children's performer, but I also own Farco, F-A-R-C-O, Farco Entertainment, which is a full entertainment company. We own, if you ever go to the C&E and you look for Shirley's Candy, we're the longest, oldest concessionaire at the Canadian national exhibition.

We have a new trailer, but we are candy like Shirley's candy, popcorn, candy bus, snow cones. We are machine rentals for corporate events. We have 32 acts that work just for us that we book on like cruise ships and resorts. 32 acts that work just for us that we book on like cruise ships and resorts. But I have a great partner that looks after most of that because all I want to do is perform. This is, you mentioned the scene. I worked by the way as a game booth attendant for three summers,

late eighties, early nineties at the CNE. Remember who you worked for? Yeah. The company was called Astro Zodiac. Oh, Ardo. I know Ardo. See, I know everybody. Ardo Godaro, by the way, I wrote about this, I wrote about maybe 15, 20 years ago, I wrote about the legend of Ardo. I won't swear

because I'm talking to Doodoo the Clown, but we were scared of Ardo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I gotcha. I gotcha. He's a very tough cookie, but a sweet man. Very tough cookie. Well, 89, 90 and 91, I gotcha. He's a very tough cookie, but a sweet man. Very tough cookie. Well, 89, 90, and 91, I spent an awful lot of time with Ardo working at AstraZodiac Enterprises. So that takes me back.

I still see him all the time because his business is growing. He actually makes festivals now. Yeah, interesting. That takes me back. But I had a question come in. It says, your family history at the C&E is unrivaled. Is that basically the Farco involvement at the C&E? It sounds like toys and stuff like that they had a store in Spadina uh back then when it was all just jobbers uh which is like wholesale uh toys uh dolls everything and my parents uh got into the candy business just temporary like part-time for the summer a few months and uh they did it uh last year was our 60th anniversary. Well, it would have been at the CNE. Wow.

So it's you guys and Tiny Tom's Donuts. Yeah, yeah. He was such a sweet man. He passed away last year. What a sweet man. Every day I would see him drive by in his little golf cart in the morning, working his hard, loading up all his places. Hey, Doo-Doo, do you need another donut?

Yeah, give me another donut. Give me the free dozen donuts he'd give to everybody give to everybody oh amazing this is the second summer in a row we're gonna have uh no cne uh are you at all worried about the uh the future of this uh toronto institution i i it's easy for me to say i'm not worried uh because i hope that people will step up i mean it's been around for our whole life. You know, it's funny, I have to tell you, that doesn't matter what city you go to, someone always relates to their, to their exhibition or their fair. You know, like I'm out west and they go, oh, the X is coming, like they call the Saskatoon X, the Red River X. Oh, the weather's going to be lousy. It's just something that's implanted in people's heads. Oh, the weather's going to be lousy.

It's just something that's implanted in people's heads. It makes me laugh because they forget two years ago at the C&E, we had 17 out of 18 days of sunshine. It was the best C&E we've had in 20 years. But yes, I believe that, you know, with the right direction and the government's help, because we have an amazing minister, Lisa McLeod, who is into the arts. So that would include you because you're in the arts right now doing this interview. Lisa McLeod is a huge supporter. She'll do anything for the arts. And I know that she has, you know, assigned money to the Niagara region for Niagara Falls, anything in Ontario for small fairs and festivals. She created a couple of grants.

So I think she's really out and I think she's going to help. I know she's helped the Ottawa exhibition. I know she's going to help Toronto, but is it enough? I hope so because the CNE is part of our lives. If we grew up in the GTA. Here's hoping do do here's hoping. Yeah. Great question. And now that I got the do do origin story, this yeah uh great question then uh now that i got the doodoo origin

story this is a great question uh can you well the question i'll just read it as is but can you ask him to identify who would be on the mount rushmore of clowns so so like like you must have been inspired like i'm thinking of like bozo the clown or also would be a good one um i actually loved um i was on a show called i don't know if you remember if you're old enough but i was on a show called super dave osborne are you kidding me i loved super dave osborne he was on bizarre before that i used to watch him on bizarre yeah well i was sit carlisle a short fat comic i mean i was like anyways uh i was on the show and me and mr fuji and the funny thing about Mr. Fuji is he speaks no Japanese in real life.

And he's an accountant, like you said. He's an accountant. He's amazing. No Japanese he'd be, Mr. Fuji. Anyways, being on that show, I got to meet a lot of people. And one of them that I met that inspired me was actually Rip Taylor. And I don't know if a lot of young people would even know who that is. I remember him from Hollywood squares. Exactly. Now Rip Taylor was off the wall, big mustache, his hair would flop his wig.

But he was the confetti king. And he just was loud and screaming. And I'm known at every fair and festival. I'm known from, you know, doing like a lot of celebrities birthdays, ones I'm known at every fair and festival. I'm known from, you know, doing like a lot of celebrities' birthdays, ones I'm allowed to say, the ones I'm not allowed to say. I'm known for throwing confetti. I mean, I have confetti. I live with confetti. I mean, confetti is everywhere I go. And I'm also known for being very loud.

And my loud word is unbelievable. So I have it on my cards. I have it on my advertisement. When I go to certain fairs, I have mayors that will come up to me, you know, the mayors of the town. Oh, it's the unbelievable. So I would have to say I would like to put Rip Taylor up there because to me, he's always been a clown without makeup. Right. Bozo's a legend, I'm telling you. And there is a few other good ones. legend, I'm telling you. And there is a few other good ones. There's another one that I can tell you really quickly, a funny two second story is about five years ago, I was invited to go to the Sony Center. I think now it's called the Meridian. Yes. And it was to see Slavo. Have you heard of

him? It sounds familiar to me, but I, yeah, I've never heard of him. So here I go, I go to the show. I got two tickets. I'm sitting about five rows back. I look around and there's almost 2000 people in dressed adults. I didn't see any kids. And this is a clown show. And I'm like, what's going on? I have nothing to do, nothing. Anyways, he's a Russian clown. He walks on stage, the crowd, the crowd's going crazy. And I watch him do his show. And I'm looking around thinking, man, I have to work months for this much money that he's getting for, you know, these were $100 a ticket, right? So about five days of two shows a day. Anyways, what he did was things that I've done in my smaller shows, where, you know, I have a big

crowd, I throw beach balls into the crowd. And so here's adults in suit and ties, like kids, you know, hitting a beach ball. He has a confetti gun that shoots out thousands of pounds from tractor trailers. The whole audience gets covered in paper, you know, where Copperfield is electronic, you get snow and disappears. So I think that if I had to pick someone out of our country, it would be him because I think he was just a blessing for what we do. Jerry, the garbage man. And then I'm going to ask you about Bob Einstein, actually, but Jerry, the garbage man wrote in and just said, can you ask him if he had a rivalry with oopsie the clown?

I guess that's tiny talent time, right? Oopsie. Yeah. Oopsie the clown. No, but I've actually used to email and send messages. I wanted to be on that show way back just to hang out and make an appearance. Sure. Bill Lawrence, right? Never called me back, oopsie. But I don't wish him any harm.

Never called me back. Yeah, shout out to the late great Bill Lawrence. And speaking of late great, we did lose a few years ago. We lost Bob Einstein, who was best known, I suppose, as Super Dave Osborne, unless you knew him from Kirby Enthusiasm. Such a nice, very, very, very, very smart man. In fact, he was so smart that we would sit before every show in the table and we'd go over our lines. And if he said, I don't think this line's going to work. And the writer said, it's going to work. And then I go out and I do my line and it didn't work.

I get to come back on another episode. And that's how smart he was. He knew what was going to work and wasn't. And whenever we had a wrap party, he would always say, make sure you bring your family. Make sure you bring. So I have pictures in my office of me hanging out with like back then, Carol Burnett, Steve Allen, Rip Taylor, Jerry Lee Lewis, like everyone that was on the show that would come to these wrap parties.

And it was all like we were a family, but he was a very, very smart, smart, smart man. Like he wrote that show. Right. Right. A member of the Barenaked Ladies used to like take care of him when he was doing that show. I guess it was an Asian court, I suppose. That's where they shot that show, I think. In the back of CFTO Studios. Yeah, that's right. Where just like Mom and some other, and I think Uncle Bobby, maybe. There's a bunch of...

Yeah, there's a bunch back there. Shout out to Uncle Bobby. Yeah, I loved Uncle Bobby, but there was that birthday clown. Not a real person or anything, but I remember the birthday clown. Oh, yes, the little happy clown. Yes, that's right. Birthday, birthday. Yeah, that's right. I'm getting these flashbacks now.

Wow, we're old. We're old. So Tyler Stewart, drummer for Barenaked Ladies, his job before he was a professional musician was to take care of Bob Einstein when he was in town to do his show up there. So just to bring a full circle. It was a blessing. I mean, it was a blessing.

And, you know, because of that, I ended up, you know, picking up a couple of movies, a bunch of commercials. Speaking of that, I want to show you something. Yeah. Everybody, you can see the balloon, right? Yeah, I can see the balloon, yes. But during the pandemic, I was thinking, how can I blow a balloon and hand it out to somebody? That would kind of, even though I'm double vaccinated,

so I decided to see if I could practice just with my hands, do a balloon, and to see if I could turn it into something just with my hands. And presto, look at that. Oh, wow. Amazing. I had a balloon question for you. Actually, I'm going to skip ahead quickly.

Oh, well, before I leave Bob Einstein, his brother, Albert Einstein, is one of the funniest human beings alive. Of course, people don't know that's his brother. Yeah, a lot of people don't know that. Well, when your name is Albert Einstein, I suppose you have to change that name at some point. But Albert Brooks, of course, is who we're talking about.

So let me just do this quick, because you did a great trick there with the balloon. Oh, yeah, the reverse balloon blow-up. Okay, I need to ask you, because Stu Stone and I were chatting, the aforementioned stew stewart stone and he told me it's the like he's literally worked he says he's worked with top magicians over the years and he's never seen anyone else who's been able to do it so what is the reverse balloon blow up it took me a long time i haven't done this in about a year but

because you asked i'm going to try okay no. Basically what I do is I get a volunteer from the audience and I put one half of the balloon up to their ear and pray to God that I don't let go and hit them. And, or breaks in their ear. And then I tell them to start going. And then I start. And usually it works because I direct my, my breath, but I don't know. It's been a year. We'll try. Okay.

That's unbelievable. It takes a lot of energy. The funniest of all is I can actually turn this into a rabbit too. Look, rabbit. Okay, so let me do this. So 99.9% of people are hearing us on the podcast. Maybe they're going for a run or they're exercising or they're going for a walk or they're biking.

Who knows? But they're listening to us. I just want to tell all those people that there is a recording of this video at facebook.com slash Toronto Mike. So Toronto Mike with a D at the end. You can go there and you can see these because these balloon tricks were really made for visual

and that's amazing. So you can see this. It these balloon tricks were really made for visual, and that's amazing. So you can see this. It's going to be archived forever. Again, facebook.com slash Toronto Mike with a D at the end. So go there and check it out. Dude, that was amazing. Thank you. I also carry a mouse in my pocket all the time.

So if anybody is going to watch your video and they've heard where to go, they'll see this beautiful mouse. It's trained, but I'll put that away for now. Very good. I don't even think my kids would know what that was, actually. Yeah, really. The other thing is sometimes if I'm doing an interview and I get tired, I borrow a pair of lips. So I don't have to worry anymore.

It's not my lips anymore. It's a pair of lips and it does all the work for me see i'm not even moving my lip oh okay so uh doodoo we did talk at length about the cne the canadian national exhibition but i had one more quick question uh that was seeded by a guy whose name rhymes with blue bone okay it rhymes with blue bone uh Okay. It rhymes with blue bone. Who opened for doo-doo at the CNE band shell? Like, is there a story here about somebody opening for you at the CNE band shell?

I've had people I had, I've had Elmo. I've had Shannon. Oh, Bowser. Yeah. Oh boy. Oh,

I'd have to think I'll tell you, I was honored. I was at the CNE about a year and a half ago for an interview during the pandemic. And I parked in the parking lot behind the press building, which is near Kids World. And right on the, there's a generating station in the parking lot. And on the, there's a mural. And there's a big picture of me. They painted.

And I was like, why didn't anybody ever tell me? I was so honored i mean i was at the cd 25 years consecutive to see the 25 years on kids stage i worked with before splashing boots i worked with uh kid them up kitty kitty kitty oh and i worked with uh k i the uh rock band like a kids rock band i worked with the amazing marcus at the CNE, who's like does Bob the Builder. I've worked with so many great and, you know, Splashin' Boots, Team T&J and all these wonderful, and I've met so many families of entertainers over the 25 years,

you know, talking about the CNE. But yeah, they've had celebrities open up. We've had celebrities jump on our stage, you know, with that come out with their families. Right. Wow. Okay. And later I'm going to ask you about a couple of celebrities who might have jumped on our stage you know with that come out with their families right wow okay and later i'm gonna ask you about a couple of celebrities who uh might have jumped on the stage but uh unbelievable you you you've now said it i've been counting i think we're at 12 times uh unbelievable there's the the baker's dozen right there i need to know because when matt

mcclain wrote me he's a fan of yours and he says every time doodoo says unbelievable take a shot he says it's a good time for everyone but what's the origin story uh you pretty much reclaimed the word unbelievable from andrew dice clay if i remember that emf song correctly like you've reclaimed it for yourself where does unbelievable come from he borrowed it from me he borrowed it from me remember that he bought it for me i basically um it's funny because i've had people come up to me over the years and say you know that's my word and i'm like okay no problem but how old are you and they're younger than me right or. I did a cable show. Oh, boy. It was on, what was it called?

Newton Cable over 30 years ago. Of course. Yeah, Newton Cable. Were you with Ed DeSoc? Yes, yes. Steve Kerr. Of course. I know this gang, yes. Yeah, he was one of my producers way back.

And he would always work with his puppets. And then I also, he used to be a weatherman. Steve was also there. And Steve Fishman was there. All those guys, I remember them all. But interesting, I moved from there to Classicom. And my producer there was Frank Scarpetti, the mayor of Markham. Wow. Yeah, so Frank, and he ran Classicom. So I have a great history, but I was doing unbelievable. I was walking through a fair and I just something I saw something and I yelled, unbelievable. And the rest of the fair, I just kept yelling it out and it just stuck. And then all of a sudden, you know, I thought, what a great thing to put on my cards and whatever. And then I worked for Shoppers Drug Mart doing a cross-Canada tour for a few years. And they made shirts and it's like unbelievable. And then I had celebrities.

I have a reel. I did a tour with a boxer, Sugar Ray Leonard, who was working for Shoppers on all their conventions. And all he would ever say when I walked by, he'd stand up and I was like such an honor. He'd go unbelievable. Like it was, you know, just funny to see this. So I really don't, it just was something that just happened. But do you remember the year approximate year you started doing that? Oh, it has to be over 30 years ago for that. I'm wondering who had it first. You or Nikolai Borchevsky.

Do you remember when he tipped that Game 7 winner against the Red Wings, they put the mics in his face and he said, unbelievable. I don't know what year that was. I'm going to help you. You're 93, I'm going to say that was. 1993.

It's okay. He's a good guy, so he can share it with me. I don't mind. Shout out to Nikolai Borchevsky and his spleen there. Yeah, that's awesome. Good memories. It's funny when I can get people to say that. Unbelievable. I'm going to start saying it all the time. I'm going to say it during the pandemic Friday tomorrow. I'm going to say it at least 20 times. Excuse me for a minute. I'm just going to have a spring water. It's 100% spring water. spring water it's 100 spring water i love it man you can yeah you do it that's i'm so glad i'm recording the video here and uh streaming it because it's a multimedia affair here i love it listening i'm doing magic as we speak but anyways uh so i was going to tell you that when you brought

up a couple of those celebrities i was honored uh to be part of Planet Hollywood and got to do a bunch of openings around the country. And I got to dance on stage with Bruce Willis singing and dancing Sylvester Stallone, the Terminator. But what's interesting is that Sylvester Stallone, I mean, I've worked for a ton of celebrities, I've flown out. But he actually had me come to his hotel and do a show for his kids in their suite. And there he is sitting in his robe, you know, no photos because nobody had cameras back then. We didn't have digital phones. And, you know, we're lucky to have a throwaway camera, which I did have. But, you know, certain places they tell you, walk in, no camera, please. You respect it. Sure.

Amazing. That's as big as it got. Still might be as big as it gets. But that's exactly what I was teasing when I said I was going to ask you about hanging out with some celebs because I was reading about you and Bruce Willis and Sly Stallone. Amazing. Amazing. Unbelievable. Not amazing.

I'm going to start amazing, but I should be saying unbelievable. You can say unbelievable. I don't mind, but I will tell you that certain shows and movies that I've done, I mean, I get to... Well, hey, is this a good time? There's a big movie I want to talk to you about.

Yeah. But maybe we talk about that and then you can tell me about some other things you've done. I have a trailer, so I'm going to play a trailer. It's 90 seconds, so this is your chance to catch your breath. Here we go.

A Chantagne lotion is good for me. He was born into privilege. Oh, really, fool? Really? And stood to inherit a fortune. But for 27-year-old Billy Madison, there's just one problem. How could I hand over my company to someone who couldn't even get through school? That's nice. Billy is not an idiot.

Aw, aw, aw. Give me one more chance, I'll prove I can take over. First grade through 12th grade, all over again. And then I get to take over Madison Hotels. You're on. I want you all to meet Billy. Hello, Billy. You want some more of that?

I didn't think so. Don't you think it's a little pathetic that just because of who your father is, you get to come to school all over again? Yes, I do. I already retarded or something. Good morning, class. So let's all open up our reading is fun books to page 69. 69.

Where's Billy? He's in school, man. So what's it like being back in school? I don't know. I kind of feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kind of works out. Universal Pictures presents... Norman Invasion of England. 10-66.

That is correct. Adam Sandler. I am the smartest man alive! Spanish Armada. 14-66. 67. Willie Madison. 14-69. 15 1514, 1981.

God, give me the answer! Wow. Wow, Billy Madison. Yes, that was truly an amazing time. Do you know, when I got hired for that, I didn't know that Adam Sandler was the one in the room auditioning because I did watch Saturday night live, but he had such a small part. He was just doing that part where he talks about all his ex loves. And, uh, so I didn't know too

much about him, but he was in the audition and, uh, uh, I have to tell you, it was life changing because when I got the part I still didn't realize you know this was his first big movie this is what changed his life and I was there for it and I have to tell you how smart he is too because not only that because he's so you know

filthy rich right now but I will tell you that he was so smart during the movie at the very beginning you, he had a girlfriend with him and he just goodbye, gone, sent her home. You know, he needed to concentrate. Then a week into the movie, there was a big fight going on and he fired the director. And he gets on the phone because I'm sitting with the celebrities like I'm sitting in the I'm a principal. And I didn't even know I was a principal, to be honest.

I was just, you know, and I wasn't allowed to touch my face. They had to do my makeup. I had my own trailer. And they estimated I would be there six to eight weeks. And it turned out to be six weeks. Anyways, we're sitting at the table and he's having a fight. And he, anyways, he picks up the phone and he calls the Beastie Boys. And he says, put your wife on the phone, Tamara Davis.

Next thing you know, Tamara Davis is there and she's directing the movie, which gave us an extra week because she redid it the first week. And she rocked. In fact, I didn't know this until a few days ago. She was in Toronto for three months, just left. She was doing a TV series or a pilot down at the CNA in one of those buildings for a movie, a Netflix or something. But anyways, it was amazing because every day I got to sit down and hang out with Adam Sandler, talk about our lives. He was great. I sat with Norm MacDonald, Chris Farley, Steve Buscemi, and I hit it off. The only difference between all of them and all that money and me is every night they went out and partied and bonded. I was a newlywed a few weeks before

the movie started. So I would go home to my beautiful wife. So instead of having six wives and millions of dollars, I have a happy life, a happy wife and a beautiful life. And I'm very happy. But they did party and go out and they were a great group. My best story of the whole movie was I was driving a clown van all painted up. And I don't know if it was it was Steve Buscemi, Chris Farley. And then Adam Sandler said, where are you guys going? And I said, we're going to a place called Harvey's because none of them knew Harvey's. I didn't think they did. Right. The food that one day stunk like we could, we could smell it just stunk.

So we all got in the car and I had Adam Sandler beside me, Chris Farley, like so crazy. And we just drove to Harvey's and, you know, he used his fun voice. I have that burger and like just crazy stories. And I do have tons of pictures of us just all hanging out, you know, without makeup, just chilling. Just a wonderful experience in my life. And the best part of it all is, is that because I sang in the movie, it bumped me up to a principal and I get residuals all these years later. I still get twice a year. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

Wow. The Billy Madison story. There's nothing tops that, but hold on, hold on. There will be a story. I think that tops that. Okay.

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So there's a little advantage to being down by the lake. Unbelievable. Woo! All right, how do I set this up? Maybe I can play the serious news reel, because later I'm going to play the one where the news person laughs at your name. But let me play the serious, because this will set us up nicely. And what year, this was only a couple years ago, right?

What year did this news story happen? Oh, I lose track of time, but I'm going to say five, six years now. It seems like yesterday, actually, because people still come up to me and shake my hand so oh unbelievable here we go with the news clip i screamed as loud as i can get in the car get in the car i we whipped open the back door they jumped in saved by a clown oh he just punched the lady ma'am we just called the police on him we got the police coming. Here he comes. Look out! Look out! He was just out to get whoever he could.

He was walking on cars, punching things. Oh, he's banging the car! Oh, not my mirror, you a**hole! He just busted my mirror off the car! The whole wild ordeal began just before 3 p.m. this afternoon. We're told the suspect came bounding down this pedestrian walkway onto Front Street, jumping on top of vehicles. Dash cam footage shows drivers getting out of their cars four ways on, looking dazed and confused. And that is when Dudu, costume and all, called 911 and gave chase.

He's wearing just shorts and a t-shirt. He just turned on to Bathurst Street now. The day had began normal enough for Doo-Doo the Clown. He'd just wrapped up both a corporate and charity event. I offered the other clowns a ride home because we work together. That's when they came to the rescue of two women, victims of a random assault. Here he comes! Look out! Look out! He turned around to chase them. There's no clowning around.

Get in our car. Get in the car, get in the car! Fast, get in! The shock of the jaw-dropping incident apparent on one woman's face. As they got in, I had two clowns in the back seat. One's pregnant. Four people packed in the car.

Four people, like a clown car. But things didn't end there. Oh, he's banging the car! Drive, drive I got a clown car. But things didn't end there. Oh, he's banging the car. He was banging, kicking. And then he held onto the mirror and he pulled, he put his whole weight, jumped on it and ripped it right off and threw it. Started pounding the door. He just busted my mirror off the car. He just ripped my mirror off my mirror. My beautiful mirror. I'm a clown. I'm not a fighter. I'm a clown, I can hand him a balloon. Doo-Doo, whose first name is Shane, has been working as a clown for 32 years.

He even starred in Adam Sandler's Billy Madison. But when I fell over, I just broke my leg. He says it's thanks to his kids who just bought him a dash cam that he captured the whole thing on video, which is now handed over to the authorities. Look out, look out! Hurry up, We need cops fast! He's chasing! At the end of the day, what do you hope the outcome is? You know, I hope that people step up.

My kids are proud of me today. That's all that matters. The ladies are fine. I mean, this guy could have as easily punched him in the head as he did in the arm. Doo-doo. Doo-doo the clown to the rescue. Unbelievable. Doo-doo the clown does tell me he doesn't plan on pressing any charges. His concerns are with the suspect tonight who's in hospital undergoing a psychological evaluation while in police custody. Though cops do say the charges

are pending. At Frontenbath, there's Stager and Gove, Real City News. Wow, unbelievable. It was quite the quite the traumatic experience because, you know, you often wonder, you often wonder in life, are you going to step up? And, you know, I'm not a fighter. Like I said, I'm a clown. What am I going to do, hand a balloon? But, you know, we were driving and we just left the charity event. And we saw two women, like this guy first, we saw him jumping on cars and punching people. And he was on meth. We found out, but anyways, I forgot that.

Like it said that I had a dash cam. Right. And we drove up and it's all on video. You can see the guy hitting it, jumping on cars. Anyways, these two women, they had a choice,

get beat up or jump in a Hummer, a black Hummer full of clowns. And they did. One dove in front of us in the front, one in the back. And the guy looked like Jack Nicholson in that movie, the crazy cycle, like trying to get in. The Shining. Yeah, that's it. And then when the police came, I think you can count if you watch the video, there's like eight cars.

But they threw him on my hood. And it took like eight cops to hold him, you know, to just to get his handcuffs on like this guy, and he was not big. He was just so wired. But the next day, that next day, when I woke up changed my life after, you know, like, it was crazy. Like I woke up, and I was on the front page of over 500 newspapers around the world, which just freaked me out. My cousin in Australia said he was working out. And I was on CNN. And then I turn on my phone, and there's like 80 messages, and I have a few hundred emails. So my kids started asking, you know, going on. And there was hundreds of people offering to pay my damage. So the first person we actually called when it was time and he did it and it was amazing.

But I got calls to come. And that first night, the next day, the tenors were performing at the Air Canada and they brought me on stage. Like I thought I was just going backstage to meet him and get a plaque. And when I pulled up, I went with one of my kids and my wife and I got to go on stage and dance and sing with them and they honored me. And then the next day was the Leafs

and the day after that was the Raptors. The premier showed up at my door with a plaque. The whole street was lined up with news trucks. I have video and pictures. They all, my son went out like a publicist writing down times, you know, you have to wait 20 minutes, 10 minutes. I even got, you would know, but I wouldn't know. Do you know that in the States they've gotten in so much trouble? They, they call the queen and they call that radio station in LA. They, they prank people around the world yes the yes

i've heard of this yes well they they tried to do it with me and they started coming out with some really foul stuff oh yeah and well during live and i said do you know that 99 of the people listening to me right now being interviewed are families with young children click well that was the end of the interview you know yeah i mean that's a sign you've made it unfortunately is when jerks like but it was life-changing and and you know i had tears all the way through because i just kept thinking you know these women like you know they were being attacked right i that didn't know he was what he was doing he was out of control so it was uh it was quite a life-changing experience but it was it was very rewarding to go home and have your

whole family so proud of you and your friends and then every fair i went to from the stampede i was on the front page you know hero clown like it was just my heart's pounding even talking about it because it was so overwhelming well dude you you said it off the top there you said know, you don't know how you'll react in a situation like that until you're in a situation like that. Like, we all hope that we, you know, jump into action and be like Batman, right? But now that, you know, you've lived through an experience like that and you find out you can act like Batman, like, did you surprise yourself? Or you must have some self-pride that you rose to the

occasion that these women who were vulnerable and who knows what would have happened that you were there to give them some uh some safety and i mean the whole thing was rewarding but you know it's funny i have i had a lot of peers in our industry that called me and said dude you could have taken so advantage of this i didn't think of anything afterwards like they said why did you give the video to everybody? You know, you would have kept it. You would have had like 12 or 13 million instead of one radio station and one TV station having like, you know, 200,000, another one having 100,000. I just gave it to everybody because I wasn't thinking. I was just so. No, you were thinking, I think because it's your brand. Part of the Do Do The Clown brand is basically integrity, that you're not out to get anybody.

You're there to make kids smile. Honestly, it's the truth. It really is. It really is. I mean, I'm lucky enough to have, I know this is going to sound not true, but I have 18 nieces and nephews, including great nieces and nephews. And I love to speak to every single one of them. At least once a week, I speak to all of them. I'm close

with all of them. I just did a show last week in the States. That's why I'm in quarantine. I can't go out for two weeks, even though I'm double vaccinated. I got tested in the States. I got tested when I came home. And just before the show, they called me public health. And now I'm okay with it. Because I knew if I was going away, I'm okay with it. But I want you to know that, you know, being locked up for a year and a half and to have an opportunity to get a real, you know, a gig was great. And I'm just humble for every day, you know, humble for every day. And when I was away, I got to see one of my nieces and nephews. So I was pretty excited. Oh, man. We're lucky to have you do do day. And when I was away, I got to see one of my nieces and nephews. So I was pretty excited. Oh man. Uh, we're lucky to have you do do honestly.

And I'm so glad you made some time for me today. I have one final question that came in from Tim and he says to ask you about your trips to the North pole. Oh, how did you know about that? He's got, he seems to know a lot. He talks about, you know, he talks about starlight and then Air 3000. Yes, oh my goodness. Oh, such great memories. And I got to go with so many wonderful performers over the year. I was lucky enough to work with a wonderful, wonderful woman, Lisa Washington. She's long finished with Starlight. But every year, for many, many years, she would call me up and say, could you organize, I've got the jet, and it would be a big jet, like a full size jet.

I've got, you know, kids coming from Starlight, like their wish to go to the North Pole or be on an airplane. Could you book the entertainment? So I would always call six or seven entertainers. And, you know, they're allowed to bring us a person with them so they could bring their kid or somebody. And, uh, we would take off out of Pearson international out of the private airport, even though it's a big 200 seat airplane and we'd have Santa inside the, uh, the cockpit would come out, you know, halfway through we'd bump, uh, we would fly basically around for an hour and a half, you know.

But, you know, in that flight, magically, we were in the North Pole. And we did it every year for so many years. And it was just so wonderful. And I have on my website, you'll see firefighters lifting up wheelchairs to bring the kids up the stairs, you know, that have never been on a plane or that are, you know, this was their wish to go on a plane. And we're singing on the plane. We've had eTalk Canada come on the plane with us, Rick Campanelli, a few of the other hosts over the years, and I got to host it. So it was like such a thrill. No pay. It was it was just you know you wrote the day off but uh you know the airlines was generous enough you know the captain you know he bumped the plane

like you know oh santa just landed on the roof right um but uh great memories but when you brought up north pole i thought you were talking about we did a tour of nunavut micalowit but uh that was uh but that's cool too i mean uh those are places I've never been to, and I hope to get there one day. It was, again, the most beautiful thing. The families up there have never really seen a clown. We get in, and they sold out the tickets. It was for a charity event, and they wouldn't let us stay at hotels. They made us stay at a family's, which was wonderful.

Nothing's on the ground. Everything that is in Nunavut is up on, off the tundra. So it's on stilts or off the ground because you can't, it's all ice. And it was like 45 below or something. And I look out the window and there's like a lineup all the way around the building. I said, why don't you let them in? No, no, they're okay. They'll be in soon.

They're okay. And it was just such a great experience. why don't you let them in no no they're okay they'll be in soon they're they're okay and uh it was just such a great experience and then i asked everyone told me that when you go to nunavut you have to ask to meet the elder so i actually asked and i went and i sat in his home with a few performers and his wife has never spoken a word of english um but he explained his whole life to us and i videoeded with my little, you know, cam quarter back then. So yeah, the clowning has got me around the world. And, you know, every single day, I'm grateful for it. And, you know, there's people out there that, you know, oh, yeah, stupid

clown, whatever. And I just, you know, look at them. And you know, this is a job, I go home to my family, I very seldomly see that, you know, the fear of clowns. I might have it a fair teenage girl walk by and go, ah, clown. But if you're afraid, I'm not going to chase you. I go the other way. Right. And, you know, a lot of that is, at least for my generation, it was poltergeist. It was poltergeist.

It was it and all those. It was three years ago. I was on CNN again talking about, you know, the scare of clowns. You know, it wasn't clowns. It was teenagers dressing up university students jumping out, getting shot because in the States they're not going to take it. And I said it will pass. And it happens every, you know, 10 years or so. One of these things happens and it passed. And, you know, 10 years or so, one of these things happens and it passed and you know, we make the best of it. You know, I'm glad you're here, Dudu,

to sort of like restore our faith in the good clowns out there. Like, cause you're, you're a sweetheart. You're a good clown. And one last word for me before we say goodbye, one last word. I just want to say this episode, this interview, unbelievable. I want to thank you for having me on, Toronto Mike. You rock too.

And I just think what you're doing is great. And you know what? Anything you ever need, I'm around, my friend. Be careful what you say because I might have you playing the next 10 TMLX, the Toronto Mike listener event. So thanks a lot. have you playing the next 10 TMLX, the Toronto Mike listener event. So... Hey, kids, it's

me! Thanks a lot. And that brings us to the end of our 864th show. Now, you can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. DooDoo, what is your Twitter handle? Oh, I am one of them is...

What's my Instagram is DooDooTheInternationalClown is my is one of them. And what's my Instagram is Doodoo the International Clown is my is one of them and hold on, you're asking me It's okay, I'm going to look it up real quickly I've been tweeting at you I hit the heart so my accent It's Doodoo underscore the clown, so Doodoo

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