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
Maybe I'm just easily amused, but I thought that episode was hilarious without being at all familiar with the source material. Same with the David Brinkley bit.
― 80,000 no name records (los blue jeans), Monday, 26 March 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
maybe I just soaked up enough canadian culture from watching Owl TV
― 80,000 no name records (los blue jeans), Monday, 26 March 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
I used to think Martin Short's "Brock Linehan" character was a big freak until I saw a clip of the real-life Brian Linehan. Hardly a parody at all.
― Josefa, Monday, 26 March 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of stuff i loved as a good involved references way over my head, when you're 6 and you see a jimmy durante impression in looney tunes you don't think 'who does that refer to,' you think it's hilarious!
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 26 March 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
although the ensemble are great, this is one of main reasons i voted for John Candy -- and it's still comprehensible (thanks to Borat et al):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btnIRlBidQc
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Monday, 26 March 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
OTOH, Dave Thomas deserves a vote just for this one (late 1970s/early 1980s Al Pacino fans oughta love it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrQHNyXJIHo&feature=related
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Monday, 26 March 2012 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
I think it adds something to SCTV when you're familiar with some of the more arcane references (I always tell my students that they're missing at least a quarter of the jokes on The Simpsons), but the people are so good, it's not crucial. I think Tex and Edna Boyle were based on real TV spots Dave Thomas had seen somewhere; I've never seen them and find the bit great anyway.
― clemenza, Monday, 26 March 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
Proof in point, I just looked up the origin of "Pow Wow The Indian Boy"
― da croupier, Monday, 26 March 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
in the Peter Pan spoof they did w/ Candy as Divine, Short is playing standup fixture David Steinberg as Captain Hook. The in-jokes there are 1) Steinberg was directing SCTV at that point, and 2) Short nonsensically calls someone "John," bcz Steinberg was one of the few regular Tonight Show guests who would call Johnny Carson "John."
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Brock Linahan is my favorite Martin Short character
"I think you're a little confused Brock..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62erUbihKRU
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
voting John Candy
always remembered the Moranis-Mel Torme bit, again scarcely an exagg of late Torme.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
God, this show came at such a critical time for me, since Nick at Nite starting airing 30-min edits in '88/'89 along with golden age SNL. I was 12 at the time and this seriously burnt deep ruts into the freshly forming neural pathways of my comedy nerdling mind.
I'm trying to decide whos the equivalent of Phil Hartman on the show, the castmember so well-rounded he could kill and get absorbed into any sketch or character, even if he wasn't the star of the show.
I'm narrowing it down to Candy, Moranis, or Flaherty.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Moranis and Short were the most chameleonlike. Candy was always to some degree Candy ... probably his only non-blustery regular characters were quietly deranged Mayor Shanks and the ineffable Dr Tongue.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Catherine O'Hara easily as her absolute deadpan dedication to fully believable although fully whacked characters is basically my favorite type of comedy. She never goes for the easy joke if it betrays the character and never does a wink at the camera that she knows what she's doing is funny.
I've always been pretty annoyed by Martin Short with the exception of Jiminy Glick. Harold Ramis is an okay director, forgettable as an actor. Always found Eugene Levy to be the weakest of the Christopher Guest crew. Rick Moranis is okay but never stood out to me.
The rest I like but not as much as O'Hara.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:23 (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
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 (twelve 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liOtOSR_Pp0
― 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