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Canadian entertainer Gordie Tapp dead at 94
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Canadian radio and television entertainer and former CBC broadcaster Gordie Tapp died Dec. 18 at 94.
Born in 1922 in London, Ont., Tapp was introduced to former U.S. president Gerald Ford as the "world's funniest story-teller." Moving from Guelph, Ont., to Hamilton to Toronto and on to Nashville, he reached millions of people worldwide with his humour.
Tapp worked with the CBC for 13 years in the 1950s and 1960s, hosting the variety show Country Hoedown. He then went on to CBS in the U.S. and starred in one of the longest-running comedy television shows of all time, Hee Haw, as country bumpkin Cousin Clem.
"Everybody who saw him loved him," said Carol Thomas. "He could tell one joke after another." Thomas, 74, has been a friend of the Tapp family for almost two decades.
Canadian entertainer Gordie Tapp dead at 94
