 This success led to his producing and directing the "Magic Skates" special for ABC.In 1985, he began to work in comedy with "Four on the Floor", a sketch series for the CBC also shown on Showtime and the BBC, as well as in over 20 other countries.His other comedy programmes in the late eighties included a special for Showtime with Andrea Martin and a Second City pilot for CBS late night with, among others, Mike Myers.