Bob Robertson, who with wife Linda Cullen formed the comedy team behind the CBC radio hit series Double Exposure, has died at age 71.
Cullen told CBC News that Robertson died Sunday in Nanaimo.
Robertson and Cullen had been called the funniest married couple in Canada after spending decades in the entertainment business together.
They met at a Vancouver radio station where they both worked, and together they created the popular CBC Radio series Double Exposure, which satirized contemporary Canadian politics. It ran from 1987 to 1997, when the pair moved the show to television on CTV and the Comedy Network.
Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Double Exposure was nominated for several awards, winning the ACTRA radio award for best comedy in 1990.
In 1994, the show was named the best weekly network program on CBC Radio and Stereo. Their later TV show earned six Gemini nominations and it was given a star on Vancouver’s Entertainment Row in 2004.
Double Exposure was known for the stars’ impressions of the politicians of the day, including memorable sketches about Brian Mulroney, Joe Clark, Preston Manning, Barbara McDougall, Bill Vander Zalm and others, as well as international figures such as Margaret Thatcher.
CBC Television comedian Rick Mercer and other Canadian entertainers tweeted their condolences on Monday.
“A funny man is gone. RIP Bob Robertson — nobody could nail an impersonation like Bob. Condolences to Linda,” Mercer wrote.
