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Television's old reliable, Saturday Night Live has occupied the same time slot on the same network for longer than much of its fan base has been alive. Over the course of its rocky but brilliant run, ...
The "Clark Kent of Comedy” also founded ‘American Bystander’ magazine and showed up in ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Strange Brew,’ ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ and ‘Small Time Crooks.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor ...
Cycle 3 brought many changes to the SCTV family, including the arrival of Martin Short, who joined in time for the last three episodes. Joined in this video by Catherine O'Hara, Martin looks back at ...
SCTV is kind of the show you didn’t know you knew: hugely influential without being popular. As far as cult sketch shows go, SCTV is one of the best. Begun in 1976 by the Toronto chapter of Second ...
There was a time, when he was younger and just a little bitter, that Joe Flaherty coveted the kind of success and recognition accorded the Not Ready For Prime Time Players of “Saturday Night Live.” In ...
Comedian Dave Thomas, whose eponymous weekly half-hour show is one of the brighter lights on CBS` summer schedule (9:30 p.m. Mondays, WBBM-Ch. 2), says he realized it was time to quit the popular ...
Catherine O’Hara, the rubber-faced red-headed comedian who stars as the determined mom in John Hughes’ “Home Alone,” began her career in Canada on “Second City TV” which had its renaissance on ...
Netflix has been selected as the exclusive streaming partner of the upcoming SCTV reunion special. And Rick Moranis, one of the original cast members, is the last to officially sign on to return. The ...
“Every day, on every page, he has been our North Star,” Gerber said in a statement. “From his days at National Lampoon, Brian was ‘every comedy writer’s favorite comedy writer,’ crafting an ...
Screw SNL; the real outlaw genius pioneers of late-night TV satire were on SCTV, the imaginary network conjured up in the ’70s and ’80s by John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, ...