Freddie P's Blog

February 14, 2008 @ 08:29

Besides having a wonderful wife, fabulous kids, and a whack of fantastic friends, I also have a great agent.

My agents name is Paul and from time to time his assistant Darrell will call me to come downtown and audition for commercials.

I enjoy doing it, but to be brutally honest, I’m not very successful at it because I’m not much of a voice actor. I can’t do a lot of things with my voice, so if a commercial calls for the “gruff cowboy type” or the “sophisticated professor type” my phone doesn’t ring.

When I get auditions they’re usually for products that are consistent with my basic profile, that being a “middle aged man.”

Yesterday was such a day and although quite humiliating it was also quite funny.

I was asked to be at "Wanted Studios" on King St W. and when I arrived I was pleased to see a few old familiar faces.

Humble Howard was there, and so was Dan Duran, former CFNY colleague Norm Spencer and good guy Bill Hayes from Q-107, and all of us were there to read for the same commercial and all of us are of the same profile.

A profile that's apparently consistent with promoting "Serenity for Men."

It made us all bust a gut, and although I can't speak for the other guys, I swear I didn't lose a drop.