Ed the Sock Gets The Boot

Say it isn't so!

After 16 years, Canada's most famous, foul-mouthed foot warmer is signing off late-night television. At least for now.

Ed the Sock - whose gravelly voice, wild eyes and crazed, Don King-like hairdo made him a stock favourite with men 25 and older - is leaving CITY-TV and moving onto what he hopes will be sweeter-smelling pastures. Creator Steven Kerzner hinted yesterday that his cigar-chomping, womanizing puppet could re-emerge in a spinoff TV show, or even land the starring role in a film.
"There are potentially two Ed projects," says Kerzner, 40, who made his debut (as Ed) on community cable in 1992 and moved two years later to CITY-TV in Ed's Night Party! (later renamed Ed & Red's Night Party!). "I can't say what they are, or who they're with yet. But we [he and his co-host/wife Liana Kerzner] are looking to use the medium in a different way - to peel open the hype and spin that's all around us. There's also been talk of an Ed movie for a while, and the script's almost done."

CITY-TV's owner, Rogers Cable, has decided that it's time Ed the Sock was put in a drawer. "They have their own vision of what they want to do with the station," he says. "And I respect that. The present show is ending, but Ed the Sock [who apparently inspired Conan O'Brien's Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog] isn't going quietly."
Ed the Sock’s last show airs Aug. 31. (Reuters)
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