Black doesn’t limit his curiosity to radio, he also does a weekly monologue which he classifies not as comedy, but as humour, and his syndicated columns are carried by 50 newspapers throughout Canada.  He has five books published to date, has been nominated and awarded just about every award for writing, humour and journalism available in Canada, and still maintains that he wanted to be a cowboy, and is not quite sure how he ended up doing what he does.   In 1997, he joined a select group throughout Canada by being named the recipient of the Stephen Leacock Award for humour.

Throughout Canada, Black is known to convention and conference audiences as some much sought-after relief from whatever it is they’re doing.  He claims that he’s basically a guerilla speaker;  he tears down everything they’ve been taught at whatever convention they’re at and puts a needle in all that to remind them not to take themselves too seriously, because it’s darn sure no one else will!

Hysterically funny, this irreverent and extremely witty individual has been bringing tears of laughter to audiences of  Basic Black for the past twelve years, first in Toronto and finally convincing the CBC brass to allow him to head on out to Vancouver.  He currently resides on Saltspring Island with his wife, commuting back and forth to Vancouver a couple of times a week.  This helps him maintain a level of island utopia and urban energy every week, and keeps him on an even keel when even his own personal weirdness becomes a little overwhelming.