Children of the 80s lost an icon last week. Les Lye, the actor who portrayed all the male adult characters on the landmark Canadian kid’s sketch show You Can’t Do That On Television passed away at the age of 84.
Alistar may have been the dreamboat, and Alanis may have gone on to superstardom, but it was Les Lye’s characters that we really remember from the show. The bumbling El Capitano, the put-upon Ross, the drunken Senator Lance Prevert and of course, Barth.
Read a great article about Les & YCDTOTV here.
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