Cabbie on the Street
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| Cabbie On The Street/Cabbie Unlimited | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Talk show, Reality Show |
| Starring | Cabral "Cabbie" Richards Cabbie's Man D (Dave Krikst) |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Production | |
| Running time | 5 minutes (On The Street) 30 Minutes (Unlimited) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | The Score |
| Original run | 2001 – |
Cabral Richards, colloquially known as Cabbie, is a TV personality featured on Canada's major sports news update station, The Score. He primarily deals with sports-related interviews with professional athletes. His shows Cabbie on the Street (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:40pm ET), and the more recently launched Cabbie Unlimited (Sunday 6:30pm ET, Tuesday 6:30pm ET, Friday 7:30pm ET, and Saturday 11:30am ET) have a tendency to delve into current events, quirky questions in sports, as well as mixing in funny previously unseen clips. The Cabbie on the Street segment is a part of the Score Tonight, a sports highlight show, and is followed by one of the following segments: Plays of the Week, Play of the Night, or the Dirty Dozen. The Score's official website states that Cabbie on the Street is the station's most recognizable feature program.[1]
Cabbie takes a relaxed approach to interviewing, often poking fun at himself to make the guest open up. He once stated that he frequently touches people during interviews because he heard it was a disarming mechanism. He has interviewed many prestigeous athletes, including Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Charles Barkley, Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Damon Allen and Mario Lemieux. Cabbie has achieved a cult iconic status among sports fans in Canada and even has a fan club on the Facebook website that has over 3000 members and is quickly growing.
Regular Guests on the show include: Vernon Wells, Morris Peterson, Kobe Bryant, Chris Bosh, and 'The Duke of Earl'.
His signature sign off at the end of Cabbie on the Street is "So that's it for me. I'm Cabbie, I'm on the street, and I'm with my man 'B' (cameraman Bryan Roy) ... and I'm with my man 'D' (producer David Krikst) ... and I'm gone."
