If you watch the Trailer Park Boys, you might know actor John Dunsworth as playing drunken buffoon Jim Lahey, but you might be surprised John 
Dunsworth the actor, actually doesn’t drink - at least not much.
““It’s way more fun to pretend to be drunk than to be drunk, because you’re in control,” said the 65-year-old Dunsworth, getting ready to catch a ferry in Vancouver Island, where he is in the middle of a tour with Pat Roach, who played Randy on the show. They will be coming to Average Joes, Oct. 6.
“Alcohol really doesn’t do much for me. I find it a waste of time and money,” he continued.
“I do most of the driving so my license is very important to me. But if someone brings a shooter up to the stage, I’ll down it,” he continued.
He is looking forward to performing again in Lethbridge. They have been doing tours together for the past six years.
“We’ve been there several times. They’re fun. There’s lots of audience interaction. We’ll bring people up on stage and we’ll make fun of them and they’ll make fun of us,” he said, adding they don’t re-enact scenes from the show.
“That would be very difficult to do,” he said.
He doesn’t find himself being typecast as a drunken buffoon as he is involved in so many other activities including teaching acting at a university level as well as acting in variety of post-Trailer Boys movies created by some of the other members of the cast.
“I acted in theatre for 20 years,” he said.
His most recent role is photographer Dave Teagues in the supernatural TV drama Haven, which is based on Stephen King’s “The Colorado Kid.”
“I just love creating characters,” he said adding he began his career on the stage, so Mr. Lahey is only one of the characters he has played.
“I’m the biggest hypocrite in the world because I always tell my students they don’t need to resort to swearing and I’m best known for Mr. Lahey,” he said.
“ But we will do interesting comedy sketches,” he said.
“He (Jim Lahey) is just kind of pathetic, but he doesn’t realize it,” he said of his character.
The entire cast of the Trailer Park Boys will be doing their first tour of the United Kingdom.
“I’ve never been there, so I can’t wait to explore England after the next tour,” he enthused.
The cast members have had thriving careers since the Trailer Park Boys ended, some going on to create new television shows and others like Bubbles going down to the United States to make movies. He is pleased to be working so steadily.
“I’m 65 now, but I feel like I’m 30,” he said.
he is enjoying being on the road with Trailer Park Boys cast like Randy (Pat Roach).
“Life is wonderful,” he said he is enjoying traveling the country, listening to CBC and meeting old friends and mentors.
“Every town is different. They all have a different feel, ” he said.
Tickets cost $20 in advance for the show, which begins at 8 p.m.
