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MacLean And MacLean - Biography

  

From the early 1970s until the early 1980s, the brothers Gary and Blair MacLean toured Canada as the comedy duo MacLean and MacLean. Most popular in bars and other rough-shod nightspots, the MacLean's brand of raunchy, often gross humor proved popular, if controversial in some of the more conservative communities where they were occasionally banned from performing. Began recording a mix of live and studio albums for the El Mocambo label (named after the iconic Toronto club where many of their shows were recorded). The brothers' act featured a mix of skits, ad-libbed rantings, and musical numbers, often adapting Canadian folk songs. The act came to an end in the late 1990s; Gary became a radio host and Blair took up painting. Gary died in 2001; Blair in 2008.

The duo scored one chart hit, albeit in the UK, when their recording "Dolly Parton's Tits" made the British charts after it was featured in a TV programme there. The two also are credited with creating the character of The Champ; voiced by Jake Edwards, the Champ was featured in comedy monologues that were syndicated to Canadian radio stations for many years.

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