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Because not much has changed.

It certainly is in 2024 Britain.

bayview: Republicans based their strategy on that missile silo guy.

BayviewFinch lol

I prefer Johnny.

@Bagelbutcher Jenkins wow hit a nerve there, lol

Don't insult Johnny like that

The Fords are winners

? nifty comparison....? you got a couple people, to go-along, with diaper donny trump ?.....wandering....er wondering... I'm thinking, of the movie '' the 3 amigos ''....

cool

the US govt was bankrolling its communist enemies and all the comedians would do was poke fun at any criticism

Phrases like that are from 100;years ago

Amerika subcontracts all its military development to China these days, but keeps it on the QT. The US is actually China's largest colony, but Beijing has allowed the sham government in the US to continue to exist, like a false front.

Yes, accurate and those two work perfectly with each other. Are you still watching? How are you?

Eugene Levy openly admitted that Weinstein was his inspiration for his portrayal of Earl. Now, as for Joe Flaherty's Floyd Robertson: He has never indicated whom he modeled Robertson as SCTV News anchor on - odd I.M.H.O., given that he'd grown up in Pittsburgh where the big name in local TV news was KDKA-TV's Bill Burns. I've heard some other Pittsburgh TV news names bandied about as other possible bases for his Robertson characterization, i.e. Adam Lynch of KDKA, WIIC (now WPXI) and finally WTAE. Burns did have a reputation for bluntness on the air at times (such as “300 people killed last week and they say it’s not war” as he noted during the course of the Vietnam War, or “How do you like that when two young punks can rob someone" when reporting on a mugging - and often letting Senators and Congressmen have it during said war when he participated in "Pennsylvania News Conference" installments that aired on Westinghouse radio stations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia), which seemed to manifest itself in Floyd's brusqueness towards Earl.

I know. SNL is so lame.

I agree

I remember when John Candy passed away and all I could think was Johnny LaRue finally got his crane shot.

@@starbuckanderson9564 - And now LaRue is reunited with Guy Caballero . . .

Uhh, with Jonny larue in the debate, the contest is already over

I can tell you where Earl's particular "ethics" came from: The late Lisa Howard of ABC News, who was fired from the network in 1964 after she became actively involved in a group, "Democrats for Keating," that supported GOP incumbent Senator Kenneth Keating of New York against his Democrat opponent, Robert F. Kennedy (who eventually won), and her involvement continued even after repeated warnings from network management about her "public partisan politics." (Her gig as anchor of the five-minute afternoon "News with the Woman's Touch" would be given to a newcomer to the network, Marlene Sanders.)

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I know right, how is this even possible! Melinvillonians are out to lunch! lol

they must really hate God's special creatures in Mellinville

In 2022 as well

Just like the prison-bound Trumpasaurus Wrecks, in the 2020 election, or his endless court cases.

Wooooooow, what a mind.....!

You mean like Hillary and the left still say about 2016 with 0 evidence of rigging while there is tons of evidence on the 2020 election steal? You mean like Stacy Abrams still claiming the election was stolen from her, even as she leads the Dem/leftist efforts to steal elections?

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@@davidbcalhoun haha .. That's awesome!! thanks for sharing that with me!! Was a nice childhood flashback!! :D

Exactly. However, as over the top it is, it doesn't hold a candle to the reality of Biden and the left.

And NOW!!!

Alot of them are here on youtube!

Ugh, don't watch the NBC or Cinemax episodes. They're just botched beyond repair story and comedy wise. Believe me, just stick to the episodes that were shown on Global, at least they actually are quite humorous.

+Robert Sumner you related to Barney or Gordy? two really fine PoliceOrder kinda guys

Agreed! Especially Keenan and that Asian guy, they both suck something awful 😔

That's the truth

In real life, Earl's involvement with LaRue's campaign would have gotten him fired from SCTV - just as what had happened to ABC News reporter Lisa Howard in 1964 after she became publicly involved in the New York Senate race between incumbent Kenneth B. Keating (R-NY - whom she supported as a member of the group "Democrats for Keating" which also included writer Gore Vidal) against Democrat Robert F. Kennedy (who would win). I wonder if that aspect of Ms. Howard's career was what was spoofed with Earl. Even ABC considered her actions "public partisan politics." I know Eugene Levy based Earl's persona (and particular journalistic ethics, values and sensibilities) on Buffalo, NY TV news anchor Irv Weinstein; I thought I detected at least of bit of Pittsburgh news anchor Bill Burns in Floyd (given that Joe Flaherty grew up in Pittsburgh), but Donald Cowper (the child actor in "SCTV's" first season, and nephew of John Candy) doesn't know who Floyd was modelled after. I know that the two anchors were archetypes of the opposite poles of where TV news was headed in that decade; Floyd was the traditionalist in the Cronkite mold who reported on the "important" stories around the nation and the world, while Earl was completely schooled in the tabloidy, "Happy Talk" style of news presentation, what with its emphasis on fire, crime, sex, tear-jerkers, animal stories and an obsession with the occult, plus the "all about me" aspect - often at the expense of national and international news items.

@@wmbrown6 If you know Pittsburgh broadcasting, then you know that Floyd's moonlight at the network, being Count Floyd on "Monster Chiller Horror Theatre," was based somewhat on WIIC's Bill Cardille, who put in a loooonnngg night on Saturday Night, hosting the 90-minute "Studio Wrestling" from 6-7:30, and then hosting "Chiller Theatre" from 11:30 (or whenever the local news ended, after NBC's "Saturday Night at the Movies" had run its unedited/lots of commercial breaks course), always a double feature, usually finishing around 2-3AM, LIVE from the SAME studio.

@@tuxguys - I knew that part, but apparently Count Floyd was also partially based on an earlier horror host, George Eisenhauer (longtime KDKA-TV staff announcer), who appeared on-camera as "Igor" in a late 1950's Friday night horror movie showcase, "The 13th Hour." (The accent and possibly the howling as well.) But my question had to do with which of the old-school TV anchors Floyd Robertson was modelled after.

Flarety's character was based on Lloyd Robertson who was the top national anchor in Canada for 30 years.

@@murraykelm5691 - Floyd sure got his name from that longtime CBC and CTV anchor, that's for sure. His persona, however, had little to do with Lloyd. And as Flaherty grew up in Pittsburgh, my money's on Bill Burns as one of his main models (especially as both Flaherty and Burns had some Irish Catholic in them).

It is a very accurate satire on election reporting today.

Really? And truly? Have you seen anything else on TV *today* besides _SCTV_ to say that?

Again, I say: Really? And truly? Have you seen anything else on TV *today* besides _SCTV_ to say that?

@@myleshagar9722 - The subplot of Earl being Johnny LaRue's campaign manager while he was supposed to be covering election returns seems a satire of the situation of Lisa Howard (1926-1965), an ABC News reporter and midday anchor who, in fall 1964, got together with other New York liberals (including Gore Vidal) to form a group, Democrats for Keating, which endorsed the re-election bid of incumbent GOP Senator Kenneth Keating against his Democratic opponent - Robert F. Kennedy. ABC suspended her on Sept. 29, 1964, over what they deemed "public partisan political activity" and violation of journalistic ethics, then after the election fired her outright (there were other issues, one built on top of the other, involving her particular conduct in other matters, but her political activities in this realm were the final straw for the network). She filed a $2 million lawsuit against the network for defamation and what she saw as damage to her career over her firing, but the New York State Supreme Court threw out her case; that, plus a miscarriage, sunk her into a deep depression which led her to commit suicide by drug overdose on July 4, 1965, at age 39.

Going clear back to the 1700s. Maybe we should have just remained as part of the Commonwealth. Things couldn't have been much worse than what they've become.

Well this became unexpectedly relevant

Oh? I thought in this sketch she was channeling Shirley MacLaine at her most eccentric and flaky. After I pointed this out, one viewer of this sketch saw the comparison right away.

al: I wonder if Johny LaRue was a bit of a tweak on crazy right-wing political cult leader Lindon LaRouche?

Yup. As over the top this it, it doesn't hold a candle to Biden and the left.

The name sounded like a composite parody of such names as Shirley MacLaine and Shirley Temple Black. (Don't know about the Lennon part, though.)

True. He must've confused that with the similarly-tempo'd song Pitney DID sing - "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance."

P.S. Both anchors were challenged in terms of such knowledge. Remember when Earl wore a blue suit that blended in with the chroma-key background and Floyd told him, "You look like Cosmo Topper." What was wrong with that was, Topper wasn't the ghost, but rather the one haunted by ghosts.

@@wmbrown6 Who's Cosmo Topper?

@@michaelglickman1300 - Come now, you mean to tell me you're not familiar with the "Topper" movies of the 1930's or the 1950's TV series? A fictitious character, played on the TV show by Leo G. Carroll, a decade before becoming the boss to the characters played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum in "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

When John Candy was doing the LaRue bit it reminded me of Dan Akriod from the Great Outdoors. How are you?

I think the inspiration for O'Hara's character here was the late Shirley Temple Black, who enjoyed a career in politics after being most well known as a prolific child actor of the 1930s and 1940s.

@@russellblake6471 - Her character's name was a composite of that one-time child actress turned political figure, and Shirley MacLaine who's had a reputation at times for being somewhat loopy and definitely eccentric.

@@wmbrown6 Thanks for the response. I wasn't expecting one a few years after posting my initial reply! I definitely see the Shirley MacLaine aspect of O'Hara's character now that you point it out. I used to love watching the SCTV 90 episodes when they aired here in the States on the local NBC affiliate. I want to say that before NBC picked up the series, that it used to run on an independent station that also showed Benny Hill and other comedy shows as part of its late night lineup.

@@russellblake6471 - Believe me, I see a lot of things that escape most mortals' notices. As for Benny Hill, I prefer his output up to the point where his last producer, Dennis Kirkland, turned his show into a de facto Playboy magazine of the air.

Dave Thomas and Catherine Ohara

@@michaelburke5907 That's right, Catherine O'Hara of " Home Alone" fame.

Especially Brown. He sounds like a complete sociopath.

Catherine O'Hara's characterization of the candidate here seemed to be modeled on Shirley MacLaine at her flakiest.