Red Green book signing Nov. 10 at Chapters
Entertainer Steve Smith will be in Peterborough next month for a book signing as his alter-ego Red Green.
The 71-year-old star of the former long-running television comedy show The Red Green Show will be at the Chapters Peterborough bookstore at 873 Lansdowne St. W. on Nov. 10 starting at 7 p.m. to sign copies
of his new book, Woulda Coulda Shoulda Guide to Canadian
Inventions. He’ll also be doing book signings in November in Waterloo, Barrie and Kingston.
In addition to books, the Red Green character lives on with a one-man touring show that made a stop at the Showplace Performance Centre in Peterborough on Oct. 16, 2016.
“When I write a book or anything, I don’t have anything to start with,” Smith told Postmedia Network in an interview earlier this week. “There’s no setup. You have to create the setup, which is always the hardest part. So here I am starting with a bunch of inventions. Great! And the Red Green take on it was how could have they been used, how they should have been used and we did it better but just a little bit off. That kind of stuff made it fun.”
covers dozens of inventions. Some are undeniably cool - basketball, the Canadarm, the goalie mask, the instant replay, the snowmobile, the walkie-talkie, Superman. Some are undeniably vital - insulin, the cardiac pacemaker. Some are undeniably dull, but useful Pablum, the green garbage bag, egg carton, carbide acetylene. And some tell us perhaps more than we want to know about our national character - Hawaiian pizza, the UFO landing pad, fivepin bowling.