redican started his career as a puppeteer, performing with various partners at birthday parties and church functions, before joining tom vandenburg to perform two family shows at the toronto centre for the arts on dupont street: the old fisherman and a day at rotten cheese gulch. after this, redican focussed on solo performances in london, ontario at smale's pace (later renamed the change of pace) redican entered the world of television puppetry on chch's "adventures of snelgrove snail" in the role of conrad crepidula. redican left puppetry to focus on comedy when the frantics formed in 1979 but he returned briefly in the late 80s to appear as a featured actor and puppeteer for the jim henson company on nbc's "the jim henson hour". in the nineties redican puppeteered the character hegdish on ytv's "groundling marsh" and maurice the maggot on ytv's "freaky stories".