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Gordon Robert Tapp, CM OOnt (June 4, 1922 – December 18, 2016) was a Canadian entertainer, best known as a radio and television presenter, comedian and a CBS broadcaster. He was introduced to U.S. President Gerald Ford as the world's funniest storyteller.
27. Dez. 2016 · By Peter Keepnews. Dec. 27, 2016. Gordie Tapp, a regular for more than 20 years on the long-running television variety series “Hee Haw,” died on Dec. 18 in Burlington, Ontario. He was 94. His...
19. Dez. 2016 · Canadian comic and entertainer Gordie Tapp, best known as the country bumpkin Cousin Clem on Hee Haw, has died. He was 94. Tapp died Sunday in Burlington, Ontario, after a long illness, the CBC...
- Getting A Start in The Golden Age
- Creating Clem
- Moving South
- Bringing Clem Home
Tapp started in Guelph, quickly getting pulled to Hamilton to develop an evening show in the early days of CHML. He started in radio with personalities such as Tommy Darling, Paul Hanover and member of Parliament Bob Bratina. That show, What's On Tapp, was the beginning of Tapp's career in broadcasting.
While he excelled as a radio broadcaster, his passion lay in television. His roots in country started when Tommy Darling, then director at CHML, built a country show, and asked Tapp to join. Main Street Jamboreewas born, and Tapp switched gears from jazz to country. It was a different time in broadcasting, an important time, as Bratina remembers it...
His success eventually took him — and his character Cousin Clem — south of the border to Nashville to work for CBS Television on Hee Haw. It ran until 1993 and was broadcast internationally as the longest running country variety show in U.S. television history. As both a writer and a performer on the show, Tapp continued to earn money after it ende...
Tapp retired to LaSalle retirement home in Burlington Ontario, with his wife Helen. He was still performing up to a month before his death, working on cruise ships and doing charity shows, and later visiting local retirement homes and putting on performances for residents. "He was amazing," said Thomas, who had visited the Tapps just a few weeks ag...
BURLINGTON, Ontario (AP) — Canadian entertainer Gordie Tapp, who exercised his comedic chops as a regular on the popular American television variety series “Hee Haw,” died earlier this month at age 94, the Canadian Broadcast Corp. announced. It said he died Dec. 18 from complications of pneumonia.
The Canadian entertainer and broadcaster was a founding cast member of "Main Street Jamboree" and a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee. He played Cousin Clem and other roles on the CBS variety show "Hee Haw" for decades.
21. Dez. 2016 · The Canadian-born comedian and storyteller died on Dec. 18, 2016. He was a member of the cast of the country variety show Hee Haw from 1968 to 1993, playing Lavern Nagger and other roles.
