Ed the Sock vs. the Shel Puppet

by Adam Bullied on Apr 16, 08

Loren Feldman is getting a lot of attention right now for creating the Shel Israel puppet. The videos are hilarious. Being the big fan-boy of Jason Calacanis that I am, I loved his current set of Mahalo interviews.

Watching these videos though, something kept ringing in my head. It took me a few hours to figure out – but I recalled a great source of humor from my childhood that the Shel puppet seems to channel in a great way – Ed the Sock.

As I’m sure most Canadians will remember, Ed was a hilarious (well, to most of us anyway) puppet that used to be featured pretty regularly on Much Music. I don’t really know what Ed is up to these days, but I thought I’d draw this comparison out anyway.

Ed, I’d encourage a trip to California, some meetings with Mahalo and Calacanis and give the Shel puppet a run for his money. Canadians need to represent.

Tagged as: blogs, Entertainment, humor

  • http://www.kountr.com Michael Artemiw

    Adam,

    Now that you are back living in TO, you should be able to catch Ed the Sock on his very own late night program on City TV. Same puppet, I think it is a different hand, and certainly different material. Think the man show without a budget.

    M.

  • http://www.kountr.com Michael Artemiw

    Adam,

    Now that you are back living in TO, you should be able to catch Ed the Sock on his very own late night program on City TV. Same puppet, I think it is a different hand, and certainly different material. Think the man show without a budget.

    M.

  • http://writethatdown.com adambullied

    Michael -

    Thanks for the details — I'll have to check out the new and improved
    Ed. He didn't get too much coverage down in Los Angeles :-)

    –Adam

  • http://writethatdown.com adambullied

    Michael -

    Thanks for the details — I’ll have to check out the new and improved
    Ed. He didn’t get too much coverage down in Los Angeles :-)

    –Adam

  • http://writethatdown.com Adam Bullied

    Michael -

    Thanks for the details — I'll have to check out the new and improved
    Ed. He didn't get too much coverage down in Los Angeles :-)

    –Adam

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