Steven Smith Jr.CM (born December 24, 1945) is a Canadian actor, writer and comedian.[1] He is best known as the co-creator and star of the sketch comedy show The Red Green Show (1991–2006), for which he portrayed the title character.
Smith was born in Toronto on Christmas Eve 1945. Before turning to comedy, he studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and then worked a variety of jobs. In 1979, he began to produce, write, and star in Smith & Smith, a sketch comedy series with a cast consisting of Smith and his wife, Morag Smith. The show was produced for Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH-TV and syndicated to other television stations in Canada.
In 1985, Smith created the family sitcom Me & Max. After the first season the Smiths went back to sketch comedy, creating the series The Comedy Mill, which ran for four years. Smith was a writer on Offside, a sports comedy series for CTV, head writer for Global's Laughing Matters, and the TV pilot of Out of Our Minds with David Steinberg. He wrote three episodes of CBS' Top Cops series.
Smith has performed as Red Green on several tours, including the "Wit & Wisdom" Tour (2013), "How to Do Everything" Tour (2014), and the "I'm Not Old, I'm Ripe" North American Tour (2016). The 2019 North American tour, "This Could Be It", began in March 2019 and ran until the end of October, with shows in 34 U.S. cities and 29 Canadian cities.[2]
Personal lifeedit
Smith and his wife Morag have been married since 1966 and have two sons, Dave and Max. They also have three grandchildren.
On February 17, 2006, Smith was made a Member of the Order of Canada. On June 13, 2011, he received an honoraryDoctor of Letters from McMaster University.[3] On February 24, 2023, Steve was inducted into the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame as a Creator and Performer, the first inductee in two categories. [4]
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