I love trivia like that. And I couldn't agree more; Levy could do anything and nailed everything he ever did.

No. John and Martin Short were the best, actually.

Everyone has their faves and Eugene is one of my faves along with Short and Katherine.

True on Lloyd, not true of the other, that would be Dave Cameron, I can't see how Camembert was based on him. Im not sure whether he was based on anyone real, but it's pretty devastating, I kind of hope not. Llyod Roberson was excellent btw.

Maybe in their names - but Earl's on-air persona was modeled after longtime WKBW Channel 7 (Buffalo, NY) anchor Irv Weinstein. Wonder whom Flaherty patterned Floyd after - probably some local Pittsburgh TV anchor with a prickly personality and "difficult" reputation (didn't that description fit Bill Burns, or was it another legendary Pittsburgh anchor?).

@@wmbrown6 I don't recall Irv wienstein as incompetent and chronically needy.. Floyd Robertson was based on excellent Canadian anchor Lloyd Robertson. (It also hilariously allowed him to morph into Count Floyd.)

@@user-un5iz6th1n - It wasn't the "incompetent and chronically needy" aspect that Levy drew from Irv Weinstein - it was Weinstein's on-air flamboyance and penchant for sensationalism and alliterative news copy. You'd have to see old WKBW Eyewitness News clips from Weinstein's years with the station to envision how Earl fashioned himself as opposed to how he came across in the end. Again, Flaherty grew up in Pittsburgh, so I'm betting his model for Floyd was Bill Burns. I did read somewhere that Burns did not suffer fools gladly, and any newie who didn't meet his particular high exacting standards didn't last too long at the KDKA-TV newsroom.

@@wmbrown6 it could be- I'll look into it a bit. Maybe he used the handle to familiarize himself with Canadians where this was produced and also permitting him the Count Floyd tie in. I'll look back on ole Irv. I may have watched him late or when too young to really notice. Thank you for the info

And that's the way it is. :-)

his Bob Hope and "Harvey K-Tel" are also brilliant

Floyd was the old-school "need to know" journalist in the mold of Murrow, Cronkite, Huntley et al. Earl was more into the zeitgeist of the "Happy Talk" style of TV news presentation - of which emphasis on fires, crimes, sex, the occult, tearjerkers, animal stories and human interest stories was, in part, "the word."

@@wmbrown6 But Earl could roller skate!!

@@bitfenix90 - Taking the "Happy Talk" ethos to its most ultimate extreme.

+Mark P, that was a different skit, _Dialing For Dollars_ .

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But that's what's funny about it: He is always getting shit on.

Sketches like this shows what a talented actor Eugene Levy actually is.

Think about the British pronunciation of Ralph as "Rafe." But as for the Camembert name - it did seem to highlight how cheesy he was in every which way, no?

There was a guy who anchored at CBC between Earl Cameron and Lloyd Robertson. They never anchored together. But as I noted, while the names of the SCTV anchors were derived from those two, their on-air personae were more rooted in their own backyards - Earl Camembert on Buffalo, TV news legend Irv Weinstein (for the penchant for sensationalism), and Floyd Robertson (apparently) on veteran Pittsburgh anchor Bill Burns (we'll probably never know on that now that Joe Flaherty has passed on - unless his daughter Gudrun is privy to whom he patterned Floyd as news anchor on; Joe was always tight-lipped on whom he based that character, unlike all his citations for his Count Floyd alter-ego and Eugene Levy's openly proclaiming whom he modeled Earl on).

Andy Rooney, around the time CBS merged with Viacom, noted that in its heyday the network's initials stood for the Columbia Broadcasting System, but today (and as of his commentary) it "stands for nothing."

Floyd was the more traditionalist of the two, Earl was schooled in the "Happy Talk" style of news presentation.

Notice how that was as far as it went, LOL...no evidence ever provided...

No, he's not.

No, he's not. And at a better media outlet than _SCTV_ , he'd be thrown out on his ass for his incompetency.

lewis: Certainly more so than the Fox "journalists."

lewis: Wait, I voiced an opinion, you fired back disgusting obscenities, and somehow I"M the snowflake? I guess I am, in the sense that I'm remaining cool, while you are hot and bothered, melting down and running your mouth like water.

lewis: Well, if it's predictible, why did you have such a melt down about it?

"Stick to cheese!"

Bullshit

"I'm a professional news man I don't make things up".

And don't forget Hanoi Jane...yes the USA would have won the war and saved the world for democracy if it hadn't been for those two traitors...right fj or whatever your name is?

LOL maybe you missed “The Pentagon Papers”. (Even Eisenhower), JFK, LBJ and Nixon admins along with the pentagon knew the war was not winnable from day one. When did Cronkite report it as such....during the Tet Offensive? Tell me again who was lying?