#sctv cast

[missanthropicprinciple]

SCTV cast members in non-SCTV productions I grew up watching

Stripes 1981 - Harold Ramis and John Candy

Ghostbusters 1984 - Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989 - Rick Moranis

Home Alone 1990 - Catherine O’Hara and John Candy

Serendipity 2001 - Eugene Levy

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 - Andrea Martin

[coolthingsguyslike]

[sctvamnews]

JOE FLAHERTY!!!

[wanderingmind867]

Favorite SCTV Character? (I'll include as many as I can and see what comes from this):

[oldshowbiz]

SCTV cast member Dave Thomas recalls:

"When Chevy Chase left the original SNL cast, Joe [Flaherty], John [Candy] and I auditioned for the open slot.

"Lorne came into town acting like a little prince. It was a painful audition. We did what was probably the worst improv of our lives. Bill Murray got the part.

"Afterward, Lorne told John Candy not to give up his day job. It was a joke, but John never forgot that.

"By SCTV’s second season, the sense of competition with SNL had disappeared because they’d become so big. We were only getting smaller—stations started dropping us. People were discouraged, but we kept filming. Things turned around once we made it to American networks.”

[pepaldi]

Harold was honoured at a memorial on this day 10 years ago.

Martin Short, who had been friends with Ramis for four decades, emceed the program with a keen feel for balancing wisecracks and sorrow. After milking the applause upon his introduction, the former “SCTV” cast member mock-deflected the attention, saying, “This is about Harold, and you know how competitive he could be. Sweet, funny, clever, lovely Harold. How is it possible for any of us this evening to put into words what we’ve been feeling these last few months?”

Later he put it this way: “I adored Harold. I don’t think anyone didn’t adore Harold. You couldn’t have a soul or an understanding of the human condition and not adore Harold.”

[kwebtv]

Joseph Flaherty (June 21, 1941 – April 1, 2024) Actor, writer, and comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV from 1976 to 1984 (on which he also served as a writer), and as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks.

 He was one of the original writer/performers on SCTV, where he spent eight years on the show, playing such characters as Big Jim McBob (of Farm Film Report fame), Count Floyd/Floyd Robertson, and station owner/manager Guy Caballero, who goes around in a wheelchair only for respect and undeserved sympathy.

In 1989, Flaherty played a guest role in Married... with Children in the season-four episode "Tooth or Consequences", as a recently divorced dentist who must repair Al Bundy's teeth.

During 1997–1998, Flaherty starred in the television adaptation of Police Academy (Police Academy: The Series) as Cmdt. Stuart Hefilfinger. The series lasted for only one season.

In 1999, Flaherty joined the cast of Freaks and Geeks, an NBC hour-long dramedy set in the 1980–1981 academic year, in which he played Harold Weir, the irascible father of two teens. Despite a dedicated cult following, the show only lasted one season. In the third episode, "Tricks and Treats", he dons a cheap vampire costume reminiscent of his "Count Floyd" character of the depicted era.

Flaherty made appearances on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens as Father McAndrew, the priest at the Heffernans' church. He starred on the Bite TV original program, Uncle Joe's Cartoon Playhouse, and served as a judge on the CBC program The Second City's Next Comedy Legend. (Wikipedia)

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[whoiwanttoday]

I started watching Only Murderers in the Building at the request of many people. Well, at the request of @kat-eleven and then in the past couple weeks multiple other people have asked me if I have watched and told me I should. I had tried and I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes. I love Martin Short and Steve Martin but I find the role Martin Short plays can make or break something for me and he drove me away. Which is a shame because it's why Kat has continually pestered me to watch because she said, "Did you know Canadian Legend Martin Short is in a TV Show". She went on and on about the 1972 production of Godspell put on by the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toronto and how it included most of the SCTV cast and many of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and stated she was taught in school that it was the single most important bit of theater ever produced. That sounded wrong to me but she went on and on about how the curriculum in Canada was how to build things out of ice and the cast of SCTV and I didn't have the heart to tell her that's why Canada probably required an extra year of high school for so long. Anyway, I told her I had seen Selena Gomez set pictures over the years and she looked good but Kat said, "Who?" because she was only in it for Canadian Boys. Well, I am here to report I came around on Martin Short's character and the show and am enjoying it and Selena Gomez is really good in it. She manages to hold her own with two comedy legends by being mean and sarcastic and it really works. I enjoy it and I am here to tell you she looks great. Look, Martin Short and Steve Martin look great for their age but they're not for me. Selena Gomez is who catches my eye. So here she is. Today I want to fuck Selena Gomez.

[westerberg]

Watching SCTV is so fun I could see myself becoming psychosexually obsessed with four separate cast members

[yeahiwasintheshit]

Aww just saw an interview with Martin short who said a week and a half ago the remaining SCTV cast members did a zoom call with Joe flaherty for over an hour. They knew he was dying and all wanted to talk one last time together. That so sweet and touching.

[collateral-joy]

how dave thomas invented the sctv

When Dave Thomas invented the Second City Television, he was thinking about Second City and how they want to make a television.

Okay, so we've got a famous "Hot-N-Lonely" Second City Toronto cast. Love to watch so many. Why put video cameras in there? In my opinion, it's because it made it "the television".

Dave Thomas dared to go there. And then he added the characters eventually. I think he was way too scared to add the characters at first, which pissed a lot of us off. But yeah, eventually Dave's famous unaired tapes and cast item got even juicier when the characters arrived.

They arrived like bullies to a school dance, to prom maybe, to that big, important dance where young love pollutes the air like a noxious gas, and many experience their very first and only juicy lip kiss.

You couldn't miss the well dressed characters when they showed up to this high school rager. There was a Moe, there was a Floyd, there was a LaRue, a Earl.

Dave Thomas dared to dream even bigger when he added the sketches to the unaired tapes and characters of the hot cast. And when we thought he couldn't go any further, he decided to air the show. No, it wouldn't be raw unreleased footage of seven freshly baked cast members with a cold slice of sketch comedy and some hot LaRue. No, it would be on the air. And it was like a Canadian show for some reason when they aired it, because Canada was appealing to Dave because Canada was his favourite.

Many people ask me how SCTV was got invented, and I tell them that story because I did my research, and that is the real story of SCTV.

Don't even ask me about the origin of The Dave Thomas Comedy Show, because I will get very upset, and potentially quite sad.

[missanthropicprinciple]

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[thefugitivesaint]

I came across this fan made documentary from 2021 on SCTV (Second City TV) that I wanted to pass along because it truly is a labor of love. Most of my childhood was the late 70s into the 1980s and one of the cultural products of my childhood was SCTV (along with Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Dr. Demento on the radio & television programs like Night Flight). What’s been crafted here is a history of SCTV told by the people who created it, in their own words, cobbled together from various sources. It’s surprisingly coherent and engaging and if you’re a fan of SCTV, it comes highly recommended.  Admittedly, this might only appeal to a limited number of you reading these words. SCTV? WTF is SCTV? First, SCTV was my first introduction to anything Canadian (the second being ‘You Can't Do That on Television‘ which basically copied the format of SCTV). Second, SCTV was also my introduction to a host of comedians when they were still young and relatively up and coming. The original cast of SCTV was John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas. You might know some of those names now. Later cast included folk like Robin Duke (who was also on Saturday Night Live), Rick Moranis, & Martin Short. (Quick note: one of the sketches SCTV slapped together to fill up time was ‘Bob and Doug McKenzie’, characters who would become audience favorites and were given a spin-off movie in 1983 called ‘Strange Brew’.) Since I have you here, here’s a few additional items of interest that I recently absorbed into my brain through my ears and eyes: 1). Two different pieces from Defunctland, a youtube channel new to me, A) discussing and uncovering who created the Disney Channel’s four note theme that proved to be surprisingly engaging and unexpectedly poignant. B) This led me to watch another piece related to Disney from Defunctland on The Halyx, the “short-lived science fiction themed rock band developed by Disneyland Records that performed at Tomorrowland in Disneyland in 1981 at the Space Stage.” The band only got one season to exist and perform before the show was cancelled. I knew nothing about Halyx and didn’t think I would want to watch a long form piece on some passing cultural detritus from Disney (not being all that fond of Disney) Turns out, I did, in fact, want to watch a long form piece on some passing cultural detritus from Disney.  2) Another thing I didn’t think I would spend time consuming was from hbomberguy’s investigation into the “Roblox Oof“ sound. I have never spent a second playing Roblox and I have no idea why one would craft an almost two hour investigation into something so inconsequential. With that said, I watched the entire thing so I guess I have extra life to squander too. In retrospect, this Roblox piece has some relation to the above Defunctland episode on the 4 note Disney theme, namely artistic credit and artistic legacies. Having kept my attention and getting me to commit to a subject I had zero interest helps explain hbomberguy’s popularity. (I just saw that Brewis promoted the Defunctland Disney piece in twitter. Well.)  I don’t know people, this is just some of the random shit I’ve been digesting. Thanksgiving’s tomorrow. Distract yourself with some creativity and get yourselves through the holiday gauntlet. 

[sctvamnews]

Joe in this sketch <3

(Season 2, episode 3 - Kidnapping of Moe Green)

[wanderingmind867]

I haven't seen any of the Christopher Guest films, but I think I would like them. Their casts are all very good: Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (Both brilliant on SCTV), Harry Shearer (who's great on The Simpsons), John Michael Higgins (a great character actor who I only recently learned was in Bob's Burgers). The films all had a great cast who's done tremendous work elsewhere. So I imagine I would like the films.

On an semi-related note, I've listened to part of the soundtrack for one of their movies (a mighty wind), and it's a great soundtrack! Seriously, listen to this and remember most of the actors in the film aren't professional singers:

[oldshowbiz]

Martin Scorsese with the cast of SCTV