Ladies first.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
undoable
this is my problem with polls about actual good stuff. I don't have to rank one great thing over another.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D03i-OdTPuU
― buzza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
i think my favorite sctv character was sid dithers, barely edging out lola heatherton
― buzza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
might go with Mayor Tommy Shanks over Edith Prickley
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
Mayor Tommy Shanks vs. Sammy Maudlin vs. Sid Dithers vs. Edith Prickley vs. Gerry Todd vs. Lola Heatherton vs. Boil-Boy vs. Bill Needle? Can't do it.
xposts
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
write in vote for the Juul Haalmeyer dancers
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Johnny LaRue. "...And I'm not gay."
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0mLHiXkM0c
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWL27LXMjM
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
I have no idea how to even vote but can I just...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye7s4ybA7h4
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
TS: Floyd Robertson and Earl Camembert vs. Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwiqdN3b9L4
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
you know in most contexts a little martin short goes a long way but his martin scorsese's jerry lewis on the champs-elysees was all-time
― buzza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
he only went a long way... in everything he did after SCTV.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
This is hard, because I could vote for several of them. But Martin Short really is one of my most favorite people in the world.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 24 March 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
“AREN’T YOU ON TELEVISION?” THE voice is coming loudly from across the room. We are in a club: a reggae band is playing, ice cubes are clinking, and a man is screaming at Catherine O’Hara. “You’re on television! You’re…no..you’re..” The voice is getting closer. Catherine smiles: “Yes. I am.” “You’re…Catherine O’Hara!” The man draws within six inches of Catherine’s face. “You were on SCTV,” he says. “Why did you leave that show? Is your career over now?”Catherine mumbles something about being happy and new projects and no, her career isn’t over, she’s on to other things, but the guy is persistent. “You have nice teeth,” he shouts as Catherine moves toward the bar.“That happens a fair amount in Toronto,” says Catherine, draining a gin and tonic. She seems content, at ease. Catherine has a bit of a reputation as a party girl (Andrea Martin: “Catherine would kill to party every night”). But tonight her mood is subdued rather than swinging. “The truth about Catherine,” says Joe Flaherty, another SCTV costar, “is that she’s like a lot of Irish Catholic girls – a non swinger. She lives a dissipated lifestyle without being dissipated.”
Catherine mumbles something about being happy and new projects and no, her career isn’t over, she’s on to other things, but the guy is persistent. “You have nice teeth,” he shouts as Catherine moves toward the bar.
“That happens a fair amount in Toronto,” says Catherine, draining a gin and tonic. She seems content, at ease. Catherine has a bit of a reputation as a party girl (Andrea Martin: “Catherine would kill to party every night”). But tonight her mood is subdued rather than swinging. “The truth about Catherine,” says Joe Flaherty, another SCTV costar, “is that she’s like a lot of Irish Catholic girls – a non swinger. She lives a dissipated lifestyle without being dissipated.”
http://sissydude.com/2012/03/04/catherine-ohara-needs-a-rest-rolling-stone-issue-494-september-15th-1983/
― buzza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
My single favourite character by far was Count Floyd (I think I've posted about a dozen Count Floyd YouTubes here the past couple of years). There's just about nothing that makes me happier than that moment every show where you feel him losing all control, and he starts scowling at the stagehands off-camera and stammering incoherently, but then he suddenly lets loose with a howl and all is right again. If you ever get a chance to see Joe Flaherty interviewed, he seems like the nicest guy in the world.
As I mentioned on another thread, I interviewed Candy once and got my picture taken with him; at the record store I used to work it, Andrea Martin came in one day looking for an aerobics tape. Always had a big crush on Catherine O'Hara. I'm not really answering the question...the core cast was so good, I don't think I have a favourite. Martin Short's a bit hard to take out of character--he can be more show-bizzy than what he used to parody so well--but he might be the most purely talented. Or not; all nine were great, even Harold Ramis for the brief time he was there. (His panicky movie-time host was like a blueprint for Count Floyd.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
I got to meet Dave once, he signed my copy of Strange Brew. He was very nice but seemed kinda grouchy, like in his natural state of being, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago) link
Canadians of a certain age will his remember his brother Ian, who had some hits in the mid-'70s (including this imitation of America imitating Neil Young):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvY-I9pNpI
I think he guested on the show once or twice.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
I love the parentheses in the thread title!
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
The first thing that came to mind when Palin gave her convention speech in 2008: Edith Prickley.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
I went to a Bob & Doug in-store autograph appearance at Sam Goody's in NYC in 1982 right after the album was released. When I went up to the table I think Dave called me "a real hoser"
― buzza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
take off!
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Saturday, 24 March 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't all the available SCTV material on streaming Netflix last year? I thought it was, but there's nothing there now.
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Saturday, 24 March 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
a Bob & Doug in-store autograph appearance at Sam Goody's in NYC in 1982
I remember that happening, but couldn't go bcz I had tix for James Earl Jones in Othello.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Was he playing Iago or Desdemona?
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Had to vote for Rick Moranis. Bob & Doug were two of my favorite characters and his one-off's were just so surreal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDojwQ8cJC4
― pplains, Saturday, 24 March 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
I gotta get the rest of the DVD sets while they're still in print.
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
this is kind of undoable, sctv is basically in my dna
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QWKw9zIyOw&feature=related
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
"as a comic, in all seriousness..."
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 March 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
What a cheat--no Peking outtakes.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Some of the Thomas stuff got weirdly unfunny during the end of their run in an SNL bully boy way - Bill Needle suddenly being a successful womanizer might be the nadir - and occasionally Andrea Martin gets a little broad for me. But I could easily vote for any of the others. Going with Eugene.
― da croupier, Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Howard Stern can be such a Bobby Bittman at times I'm pissed so few people know the reference
― da croupier, Saturday, 24 March 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
how arrrrrre ya
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
the comparison occurred to me around the time stern was on letterman telling him how Leno had no loyalty, no character
― da croupier, Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
can't be anyone but John Candy ... but still, had a harder time choosing him over Joe Flaherty (for Count Floyd alone), Eugene Levy and Martin Short than i thought i would.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Libby Wolfson: You are... so beautiful... to me.
― Josefa, Sunday, 25 March 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
"San Francisky? So how did you came, did you drove or did you flew?"
― buzza, Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
martin short's greatest moment:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiUFtrFky8
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 25 March 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
― buzza, Sunday, March 25, 2012 5:41 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
re the queen haters: as great as Martin Short was, John Candy nearly upstaged him by doing, uh, nothing.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
why wd SCTV be popular here? don't you have to be old enough to remember David Brinkley?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mN7NxDpm7Y&feature=share
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
The inspiration for "Mel's Rock Pile" (an original clip from the late '70s, incorporated into a version of the show that aired 20 years later):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aH_nrUWecQ
― clemenza, Monday, 26 March 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
i understand that most of the SCTV cast/crewmembers had real-life inspirations. Count Floyd, eg, was based on some Pittburgh TV host with a similar schtick.
i for one, have always been curious if there was a real-life inspiration for Harry the Guy w/ the Snake on His Face:
http://www.polarblairsden.com/actorsjohncandy18.JPG
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Monday, 26 March 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
I always wondered what Americans made of the episode (when they were on NBC) that was an extended parody of CBC, our national network. They had the Goin' Down the Road remake, the Hinterland Who's Who spots (a real one below), etc. Don't know about Harry the Snake Guy, but Floyd Robertson (Count Floyd) was based on Lloyd Robertson, a longtime CTV anchor--just the name, really, it wasn't an imitation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aoWSpFor0
― clemenza, Monday, 26 March 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
Morbz helping prove that Moranis is the right vote here.
― pplains, Monday, 26 March 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
Joe Flaherty was always great at playing characters getting angry at the idiocy around them(guy cabarello, the newsreader) or even when he disgusted at himself (count Floyd)
I did enjoy when Dave Foley used his christmas special from some years ago to just go an SCTV sketch with Dave Thomas & Flaherty
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
I never found Martin Short annoying until, inevitably SNL. They ran Ed Grimley right into the ground, true to "catchphrase comedy" form.
O'Hara and Martin were amazing, I often forget that 2 women played all those characters.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
c'mon, just for his Floyd the Barber version of the opening Godfather monologue ("Oooooopie and his friends brooooke my barrrrrber pole") Levy was phenomenal.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G_AO0iVw5w
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
I can hear that one w/out playing it
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
My all-time favorite moment of (muted) bluster from Candy is his reaction to the "You" feminist play at 6:24 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8EMWu6LCQ
"This is a bad play."
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Kingfish, you know Floyd Robertson the newsreader and Count Floyd were the same character, right? Count Floyd was a weekend gig Robertson did to make ends meet -- the self-loathing Count and the alcoholic self-deluded 'serious journalist' were one really well-written package.
― Whiney Houson (WmC), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
loved everytime they staged a fight scene and used a dummy as a double.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
You know, I never knew that. I haven't seen the show in years.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
i have martin short to thank for turning me on to whatever happened to baby jane? in particular (and robert aldrich in general) b/c of the "whatever happened to baby ed?" skit.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
― Whiney Houson (WmC), Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:46 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ya i loved that.
i guess if you didn't grow up watching lloyd robertson and earl cameron (aka earl camembert), there are some li'l things you can miss, but it's funny anyway
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Das Boobs (The Boobs)
the Count Floyd Ingmar Bergman parody is genius ...
(can't get to Youtube till later to post it)
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4BCMJiQ8gU
count floyd and ingmar bergman ... scary!
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
I think I'm going to give my vote to Andrea Martin.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR4Kk5RT_Kg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
excellent choice, vegemite!
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
Marcie Odette, ex Solid Gold Dancer is my favorite. The routine on Dusty Towne's Christmas Special is still one of my favorite things EVER
"And you know I used to work with her mother at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOtOSR_Pp0
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
geez these are pretty much my 9 fav people ever
― humba (NZA), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5rAXkcwOQ
this skit scared the shit outta me when i first saw it as a little kid, mainly b/c i also hate beets.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
really needed to see this on Oscar night
http://www.video.simplystreepmedia.com/view/702/catherine-ohara-impersonates-meryl-streep-on-sctv-1981/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 March 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
Whoever it is, I hope there's a tirteen-tirteen tie at the top.
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm enjoying this thread, but I still won't vote.
― Whiney Houson (WmC), Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
baby
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DyFisvHV7Y
― filthy dylan, Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 30 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Surprised Andrea Martin finished ahead of Catherine O'Hara, and myself, I'd move Levy up. Smart vote distribution, though. As many of us pointed out, so difficult.
― clemenza, Friday, 30 March 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
poor Dave Thomas ;_;
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Friday, 30 March 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
everyone got votes tho, so that's kind of a nice thing.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
Every one of these SCTV clips posted to advocate for one of the cast members reminded me of the brilliance of another one. So I think we call this a tie.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 30 March 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
Ryan Seacrest is an SCTV sketch character come to life. like a cross between Dick Clark, Merv Griffin and Johnny LaRue
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Saturday, 1 September 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
It's time for Christmas In Leutonia! Who's got the egg?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqvFYXybtgA
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
and let's have a big shout out to Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
I love that John Candy didn't even know what Divine's voice sounded like, but just took an educated guess from pics of him.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
really? wow. that's fantastic
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
not christmas but open 24 hours a day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8NQZGXEcm0
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
where's LaRue's Christmas crane?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
I can't find it on youtube!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
found!
not youtube but awesome nonetheless. thanks for reminding me, Morbs :)
http://www.johncandy.com/VideoDetail.aspx?VideoID=42&VideoSection=16
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
goddammit
it cuts off before Santa! wtf is the point of that. stupid
welp
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Dave Thomas makes for a devilish Liberace.
http://youtu.be/MZk4BUzf26U
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Harold Ramis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYCbF0Fat-c
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
thanks for posting that Morbs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
comedy hardman stuff, he wd've liked it
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
definitely!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
from Dave Thomas' post-SCTV CBS series (which ran 5 episodes, perhaps bcz this material is both arcane and brilliant)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pb6iI1r8zw
"have some muesli"
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Somebody just mistakenly rang my doorbell looking for somebody named Joe Flaherty. I missed my chance to pretend to be Count Floyd and say "so scary!"
― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 March 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
loool
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
So I can no longer feeling too silly to finally admit that I frequently play a game with my dog where I lean my face into hers, swaying back and forth while humming Dr. Tongue's 3D "doo-doot" music while she tries to bite my nose?
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:50 (seven years ago) link