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Floyd Robertson is a fictional news anchor and reporter, portrayed by Joe Flaherty on the Canadian sketch comedy series ''SCTV'' in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a co-anchor, with Earl Camembert (another fictional newscaster, played by Eugene Levy), of the ''SCTV News''.〔(SCTV Guide: SCTV News ). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 In addition, he doubled as the long-running horror host Count Floyd on ''Monster Chiller Horror Theatre''. ==As news anchor== Floyd Robertson's name was originally derived from that of CBC news anchor Lloyd Robertson. Shortly after Floyd Robertson debuted, Lloyd Robertson changed networks, and became the longtime ''CTV National News'' anchor. Other than the name and occupation, the character shares no real similarities with the Canadian news anchor. Floyd Robertson was presented as the respectable, well-dressed member of SCTV's news team, who reported on the important national and international news stories (including a series of natural disasters in the semi-fictional African nation of Togoland); while the bespectacled, nerdy and obliviously self-important Earl Camembert – dressed in loud checkered jackets and matching bow ties, and his black hair in a semi-afro style – was stuck with the more trivial and frivolous items (such as a fire at a doily factory). Besides the difference in journalistic credentials, Robertson's lucrative annual six-figure salary was a sore point with Camembert, who was paid only union scale and was forced to anchor or co-anchor all of SCTV's newscasts from sign-on to sign-off.〔("SCTV A.M. NEWS, 2/10/77 - EARL NODS OFF DURING THE NEWSCAST" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14. In that sketch, Camembert mentioned that the late night news report was on at 4 AM, thus falling close to sign-off time.〕 When not informing viewers of the news of the day, Robertson served as a straight man to Camembert's antics, including playing tape music to accompany news items he was reading,〔("SCTV, 3/24/77 - PROMO FOR "BATH TALK"/SCTV NEWS (EARL'S MUSIC)" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 or doing an entire newscast while under the influence of marijuana,〔("Stoned Earl SCTV News" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-06-11.〕 or eating dinner on the set during a newscast,〔("SCTV - News Featuring Earl Eating Dinner" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 or filing a report from a recently opened local delicatessen when he was supposed to travel to New Delhi, India,〔(SCTV News - Earl in 'New Deli' " ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-11-14.〕 or entering the set on roller skates and wearing what Robertson aptly called "Jimmy McNichol hand-me-downs."〔(SCTV, 12/5/80 - "SCTV NEWS (FLOYD ROBERTSON & EARL CAMEMBERT)" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 More significantly, after Camembert served as campaign manager for the ultimately unsuccessful political run of SCTV personality Johnny La Rue (played by John Candy), Robertson announced on the air that he would be reporting his colleague for violations of journalistic ethics. Robertson had particular scorn for Camembert's editorials, on one occasion laughing throughout his co-anchor's piece. Another time, when Camembert gave a particularly outrageous editorial in which he made disparaging remarks about women newscasters, Robertson coldly informed him that, if given the chance to co-anchor with a woman, he would drop Camembert in a heartbeat.〔("SCTV News: Earl and Women Newscasters" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 On some occasions, Robertson pushed his luck with Camembert. At the end of one newscast where Robertson made fun of his co-anchor's unorthodox pronunciation of his surname, the ill-humored Camembert responded by punching him in the jaw.〔("SCTV News: Terrorist Report" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 Another time, when Camembert was in severe pain from an impacted wisdom tooth, Robertson decided to make him laugh by ending the newscast with a humorous item about a man and his wife visiting a pet shop. Robertson, however, kept pushing the punch line to the point where Camembert, at the end, went for his throat.〔("SCTV News: Earl's wisdom tooth" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 On one of the few occasions where ''SCTV News'' had commercials, the sponsor was a toy company run by Robertson himself, whose only product line was the "Mr. Earl" doll (which was clearly patterned after Camembert, and also a spoof of ''Saturday Night Lives Mr. Bill). The ad so enraged Camembert that he abruptly cancelled an editorial he planned to give about friendship, and at the end of the newscast once again lunged at Robertson.〔("SCTV, 12/12/80 - SCTV NEWS: FOURTH ANNIVERSARY (MR. EARL DOLL)" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 Robertson's disdain for Camembert extended to his son, Earl Junior, who when trying his hand at co-anchoring a newscast was bullied mercilessly by Robertson.〔("SCTV News - Earl's Son Replaces Floyd" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-11-14.〕 But Camembert was not the only colleague to be subjected to Robertson's wrath: When Walter Cronkite (as impersonated by Dave Thomas), filling in for Camembert one night, fabricated a "big story" about an explosion at a laundromat, Robertson snapped at him as well.〔("SCTV News - Walter Cronkite Sits In" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-11-14.〕 At least one sketch implicitly suggested that Robertson, in addition to co-anchoring the ''SCTV News'', was also the station's news director (a common practice in the earlier years of television). After SCTV's resident foreigner, Pirini Scleroso (played by Andrea Martin), botched a taped field report, Camembert pointedly reminded Robertson that he was responsible for her being hired as a reporter in the first place.〔("SCTV - News Featuring Pirini Scleroso & Consumer Action Line" ) (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2010-05-14.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Floyd Robertson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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