Ben and Jon are awesome! (original) (raw)

Exerpt from an old article about Ben on the CTV site that made me giggle a lot:

But if [ Ben ] were to pick someone at the Idol dinner table to which he'd most likely give his last slice of cake, Mulroney would probably choose his comedic counterpart, Jon Dore, whom he calls "a frickin' genius."

"I think he's got more talent in his gut than I will ever have mastered during the course of my career. I think he brings something to the show that we absolutely need. He loves music and he incorporates that into almost anything he does. He's so creative, so generous, so nice and so funny," he says.

He recalls the first time he met and hung out with Dore. During the first season of Canadian Idol, Mulroney tagged along with the comedian to a pub in Calgary where he fleshed out some ideas for an open-mic night at Yuk Yuk's. After watching Dore's act, he says he instantly became "a Jon Dore groupie."

After three seasons of countless jokes -- some caught on tape but most behind the scenes -- Mulroney has learned a thing or two about the comic's grooming habits.

"He shaves his neck more than any man I've ever known," he says. "If you watch the first three episodes of the show, I want you to watch the neck hair. On certain shows, it's bushy and on the next city, it's gone, and by the end of that city it's back again. It's very impressive."

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