This was the ultimate relief triumvirate in my youth and, obviously, I still return when in need of real good laughs. I feel where you're coming from and you could very well be correct, but each brought such unique and genuine comedy quality to my life I'm hard-pressed to choose up sides. Regardless, ha-ha's remain good medicine!

SCTV and Kids in the Hall

Guy was one of the best producers in the business. Right up until his tragic death at the brewery.

I really felt bad for him - him being confined to that wheelchair.

he only used the wheelchair for respect

Guy was ahead of his time.

Guy is an inspiration to not only fellow Italian Americans but to people everywhere.

When I first saw that I could have sworn that was Jennifer Warnes. It looks a bit like her.

Was it clockwork orange?

That is awesome! I hate to say, but I can’t hear the song without thinking of this skit and I “laugh out loud”! 😂😂😂😂

It never gets old! I watch this at least 3-4 times a year Thanks for the info re Jimmy. I read his autobiography and it does go into his time working with Harris

I knew he liked it! AW HAW HAW HAW HAW!

I think the book she was reading was Shogun. Didn't he look like Michael McDonald

Actually, SCTV first began on a fledgling new TV network (Global Television) in the early 70s. They got a license on the condition that they produced a certain number of hours of original Canadian programming. They were desperate for something and offered it to Second City which had a comedy group in Toronto (including Candy, Levy, Thomas, etc). At first, they produced just one half hour of programming a week and it was so successful that the CBC got interested and they then went there.

@@bufnyfan1 Some networks, here and in the UK, seemed to have cash to burn in the 70s and took chances on outrageous stuff that they would never do now. Don't get me wrong, streaming television is amazing, but the way that networks just went "Ah, what the hell" and threw money and more importantly, programming time at Monty Python, SNL and SCTV, bizarre and utterly ridiculous content, is funny as hell.

SNL sucks. Always has, always will. I have watched this clip 100 times and it still makes me laugh out loud.

@113908207651564492634 I wouldn't say it has always sucked, I just think the humour of SCTV, for whatever reason, has tended to age better. SNL has been pretty funny lately IMO but still wildly uneven.

SCTV was / is the best sketch comedy show EVER. I'VE BEEN A FAN SINCE the 80's

I actually find most of it even funnier after all these years

Agree totally , SNL has some legendary bits but if you watch a random full episode of each . SCTV will win hands down

The talent is much better. Eugene Levy alone puts Bill Murray, Belushi, and Ferrell to shame. Ferrell's celebrity is especially confounding.

Murray is a true talent, and he played Joe DiMaggio in an SCTV skit. Belushi was a force of nature. Except for the Chevy Chase the first SNL was very strong. Many started in the Second City troup. It really became a matter of the direction that Lorne Michaels took the show once the 80s began. But, SCTV was much funnier and has so many layers, I find it deeply entertaining!

I've been a fan for decades. I introduced this program (as well as Monty Python and The Goodies) to my 20-year-old son. He asked me once, "Did all the great writers and performers die or retire? What happened to quality?"

Your son is very lucky to have a dad introduce him to things you know from experience. Often that stuff is "discipline and tough love" its just as important to pass along humor. My dad and I could always laugh together and we loved sharing the love of comedy with each other.

They callback that joke in the People’s Golden Global Choice awards episode. Blink and you’ll miss it

We still do

wait, that's not Richard Harris and Ann Turkel?

Gosh it does sound like him 😂

WHO THREW THAT BRICK?

Very short time after that song was a massive radio hit and a very short time after that hit moviein which he was left for dead after a bear attack. The one remade with Matt Damon just a couple years ago

@@JeddorianJalapeno "A Man Called Horse" 1970. I saw it in the theater. Harris actually sobered up a bit and did some acting. The scene where he is hung by hooks in his chest is memorable.

The low voice/high voice kills me!😃

A MAN CALLED HORSE!!!

My favorite

Hahaha so classic

Dave Thomas dancing is funny, and it is great how he did the whole skit with Eugene Levy. This was a good skit with Dave and Eugene together.

😂😂😂😂

Eugene is the confused hinge on the whole thing. Dave Thomas rules but he's not the focus.

Idela Voudry.

It would be better than what they ARE showing

And it's on one day next week.

How about the 32-year-old shops and gym guy trying to meet girls?

Do I recall that SCTV did something like that again with Christopher Cross' "Ride Like the Wind?"

Wes Clark Yes. They show Michael McDonald having discussions with people in the studio but running to the mic just in time to sing "Such a long way to goooooo." Hilarious. That was one of Rick Moranis's Gerry Todd sketches.

After The Muppets, I imagine them being kept in a closet waiting for their cue.

Today they’re just on their phones.

🤣👍

SCTV still was funny in spite of NBC wanting to make it an SNL clone. It's the Cinemax episodes I'm worried about, where it was still funny, but not by much and you just knew it was over, even if Martin Short was the only reason to watch.

@@canaisyoung3601 I'd watch Joe Flaherty read a phone book and laugh.

I remember discovering SCTV around 77 or so, quite by accident, freshman year...a treasure chest packed to overflowing with glorious gems

Denzel mah MAN!

I will not support Amazon, but I would like to see Jive Pawnbroker on any other platform.

I involuntarily burst out laughing at that part! lol

Comedy isn't just timing. It's attention span. Unfortunately most kids are raised on Chuck Lorre style sitcoms that are just excuses to string one-liners together.

He was really taller. Richard Harris I mean. Dave Thomas is about as tall as…as he was here. I think.

Michael Barnhart Same thing. I heard this on the radio and flashed to an image of Richard Harris doing some kind of dance during the end part. I absolutely couldn't remember how I had that vision. It was worth the wait. Ha!

Joseph Olson There is a 1972 BBC special called "A Gala Evening of Music and Wit" where Harris was sort of doing this during the instrumental section. He is sitting on the stage during the "there will be another song for me..." section and does this awkward roll/spring to his feet during the instrumental section and essentially, well does what Dave Thomas is doing.

I heard it on the radio for the first time today on a '60's station, and also thought of SCTV!

kevin mcnutt Awesome

"Look, babby, this wrist Mickey got the bleach all ovah it! Dime me up and the aftahnoon is y'alls!

Same 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

That was awesome " what are you taking , night classes ?" , no , just trying to meet some girls... the funny thing was back then, it was not even unusual for a 32 year old Teacher to be Dating a High School Student ... Times, they have changed, that's for sure .

​​@@jefffromjersey52 bruh its even considered immoral for college students to date anyone five years older. Theyre trying to make thr twenties the new teenage years and the teens a secondary toddlerhood.

​@@neonfrootwe're on our way to it being unethical and immoral for people of any age to date. Only fans only

How many viewers actually watched the whole video to get to that part ?It didn't fail to disappoint, that's for sure!

Andrea Martin is Canadian/American. Harold Ramis is American.

The show is Canadian produced which is probably what Paleblue826 was getting at.

the story is most of SCTV was done on a "shoe string" budget--and in fact to save money they taped for several years in Edmonton, Alberta----Dave Thomas has said that they loved the low budget as they realized they had to make more out of less-and being in Edmonton meant the censors couldn't be bothered reviewing what they did which made them all the better

they laugh to keep from freezing....

@@thegreenbird795 you're right, it really does help. 😂 Greetings today from chilly Alberta, where it is -29 with the wind chill, and I am watching old SCTV skits to warm up before I have to leave for work. ❄❄❄

Back in the early 70's I was watching David Cassidy in a white suit doing at concert at a music fest and someone threw mud at him.

Still funny.

You haven't seen SNL's Lawrence Welk?

"THAT'S VERY FUNNY, MEL!"

My agent’s gonna sue you, Mel!

I must have missed this until now. Very sad indeed.

@R W Midnight Express parody with him is classic!

Tony was in SNL for one season in 81 to 82 .He should have stayed longer.

Was he that rock n roll chef guy? …yo bird… you dead (speaking to the chained up turkey)

​@@murraymiller4321 No that was Dave Thomas, it is on the CCCP episode when the Russian's hack into SCTV

DaveConleyPortfolio 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

More like Robin Williams

Space Pants

@@rhughes1795 When I say "Space", you say "Pants!".

I agree. Comedy used to be about laughing and having fun. Now comedy is all about politics and about bitter cultural divides.

​@@christopherthorkon3997 comedy became about nihilistic mamchild angst since the 1990s.

Candy, Flaherty

Soulvigilante I was thinking that very thing! 😂

😹 Lol

Really?

Are you sure Harris wasn’t just drunk and told off some random person?

Haw ha haw haw ha ha !

He should have been flattered that anyone impersonated him at all.

Probably because it brought to light Richard Harris' inadequate dancing skills.