Taking an early interest in politics and art, he began to do editorial cartoons for the nearby weekly newspaper The Tilbury Times.
He was part of The Second City for a time and was a widely recognized face from dozens of TV commercials and television shows in the 1990s.
Eventually he joined the Los Angeles staff of MAD TV, where he contributed writing to 25 episodes of the hit Fox program.
He returned to Canada to write for five seasons of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and the hit CTV sitcom Corner Gas.
Marooned In Space (2016) is a comedic science fiction novel about an unlikely group of astronauts discovering distant worlds.