@@iscariot666 Me too. We used to watch them over and over again because we had the shows on VHS. I still remember most of it word for word 40 years later. Comedy gold? Comedy platinum!
Yes. I watched an episode of Family Ties on a flight a little while ago and couldn’t believe how poorly it’s aged. The SCTV stuff, by contrast, has only become better with time ! Eugene Levy playing Henry Kissinger 💯
Thanks generalBlasto, you're the best!!! Totally the most excellent Saturday late night show I must say of my childhood, had most of my friends hooked too 😄👍
What made SCTV unique was they didn’t have producers breathing down their necks telling them what they could and couldn’t do.There were no network exec. talentless egos in the way.Shooting up in Edmonton,Alberta had its advantages in that they could let their talent run wild and do whatever their imaginations let them,no matter how insane or outlandish it seemed.They were so far out of touch or put upon by what was currently hip or considered mainstream cool they in effect created their own brand of cool and hip.Talented artists that were allowed to create on their own terms resulted in something quite brilliant that has stood the test of time.
25:19 - The Midnight Express Special! John Denver singing Rocky Mountain High from the dank depths of the Turkish Prison. Anne Murray singing Snowbird as she endlessly circles the walking pillar. Pure 100% Grade A comedy right there.
Martin Scorsese directed 'An Afternoon With SCTV' in 2018 at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jimmy Kimmel was the host. The release date is yet to be determined.
+Kyle Ruggles Although Lorne Michaels was Canadian, he had nothing to do with SCTV. He did, however, produce another iconic sketch show-"The Kids in the Hall"-for HBO.
@@Danimal77 funner is one of our better words. It is pretty good english, 91.3 on the scale. No horror. False 911 call on your part. Your GF walks on egg shells.
Oh, THANK YOU for putting this reel together of this one of a kind TV classic sitcom THE GREAT SCTV! There has never been a brilliant sitcom like SCTV ever, and now, with the Politically Correct World, we are stuck in. Nothing like SCTV or many other old TV shows could ever be made again because real humor and laughter has been silenced! 😢 So Thanks for archiving these episodes and uploading them to RUclips to show people what our censored but FUNNY and not Politically Correct TV looked like and what real laughter feels like! Bwahahaha!! 3D House of Stewardess!👀❤👀 ❤️🇨🇦🎉😂💃🏻😘
+ generalBlasto This has *got* to be the best video on all of RUclips! Thank you for putting this together. I can't say enough about it. I remember most of these bits very well and there are some I don't recall having seen. What a hilarious compilation! I appreciate all the time you put into this project. Thanks again!!!!
I loved the Fantasy Island episode. "I hate you, you cheap little device for exposition!" and "You pulled that one on me on The Road to Dien Bien Phu!"
When will all the music be cleared and when will we get the whole thing on DVD/Blu-ray? This series has been put on hold for far too long and no one is doing anything it seems. Very sad.
"An Officer And A Gentile"---LOLOL!!! This is what (well, one of so many things) set SCTV apart from SNL and FRIDAYS andthings I'm forgetting...the ingredient is literate sketch that did not treat it's audience like dummies.
"Yeah, I've made alot of mistakes in my life. But, I'll tell ya one thing. If I make a mistake as mayor, you're gonna know about it." Lol. Joe Flaherty is such an under rated talent.
leave it to beaver, what a CLASSIC! WARD WEREN'T YOU A LITTLE HARD ON THE BEAVER LAST NIGHT? I LOVED THIS SHOW., you should make a tribute show for { JOHN CANDY} in his memory???????
Crazy Crafts with Molly Earl ! I staged an Xmas version of the Half Wits with my family, including my aunt Anne playing the inventor of the amazing bingo drop can and Nana as Blanche Raye-Kellogg
I don't know why people keep comparing SNL and SCTV... these shows are apples and oranges... One is LIVE.. and "constructed"in a week that difference allows for SCTV to be far more satirical and cerebral. When they are recreating a old TV show or movie etc...the attention to detail is incredible. Most all of it filled with very obscure references... SNL goes for the easy laugh generally.....broad strokes ..almost by necessity They wouldn't have time to ever do what SCTV did. If they were created similarly ....the SNL.casts would have been able to explore those themes. Just watch the old Belushi dancing on the graves segment.
When the show is indicated it was very funny. And inventive. And they did lift some of their material. And it’s later years it turned out to be something like what you’re saying here. That’s why John Candy left. The show ended up with poor ratings and getting canceled. Think about that. When they started to develop these characters and have this long segments with the same characters that were sort of cynical versions of pop-culture singers and performers that you would see on talk shows the show took a nose dive.
Lin Yee Tang on the Maudlin show!! There is no way in hell that would be made and aired today and I'm actually surprised RUclips hasn't pulled stuff like that already. I'm a fairly liberal person but also an *older* liberal person and I say chill out with this PC bullshit and just enjoy the humor! no one is thinking disparagingly of Asian persons after watching that.
Развлечения
Nobody has ever done a better impression of Woody Allen than Rick Moranis.....it’s pure gold!
Watched this as a kid growing up in the states. Just one more reason I thank the stars that Canada is our neighbor.
STILL better than ANYTHING on TV today!!
God these guys were brilliant. Best Comedy skit show of all time. I remember staying up late on Sat nights when I was 10, 11, 12 years old.
Exactly. I was that age as well, and at the time the show seemed magical!
@@iscariot666 Me too. We used to watch them over and over again because we had the shows on VHS. I still remember most of it word for word 40 years later. Comedy gold? Comedy platinum!
What does SCTV stand for
@@andyburke3886 Second City Television.
The Sergeant Peppers of sketch comedy… complete masterpiece… BRILLIANT.
More entertainment in 5 minutes than SNL from 1990 to present.
This was classic SCTV.
SCTV is still so great! I miss John Candy!
Pure genius...!!!!!
SCTV - greatest television comedy show of all time.
Cult of Bushmiller?
yes
It wasn't a show, it was a *network* !
Most excellent I must say 😄😎
Now I remember why I always thought most network sit-coms sucked, because I grew up with this.
Yes. I watched an episode of Family Ties on a flight a little while ago and couldn’t believe how poorly it’s aged. The SCTV stuff, by contrast, has only become better with time ! Eugene Levy playing Henry Kissinger 💯
Pure genius...
Thanks generalBlasto, you're the best!!! Totally the most excellent Saturday late night show I must say of my childhood, had most of my friends hooked too 😄👍
Only thing missing: any promos for The Days of the Week. Brilliant nonetheless!
Sooo many great memories. Thanks so much General!! What a cavalcade of stars ...
God its good to see Lynsk Minion again. I love Turning Japa-neese by Jerry Todd. A great video, should have won an MTV award.
What made SCTV unique was they didn’t have producers breathing down their necks telling them what they could and couldn’t do.There were no network exec. talentless egos in the way.Shooting up in Edmonton,Alberta had its advantages in that they could let their talent run wild and do whatever their imaginations let them,no matter how insane or outlandish it seemed.They were so far out of touch or put upon by what was currently hip or considered mainstream cool they in effect created their own brand of cool and hip.Talented artists that were allowed to create on their own terms resulted in something quite brilliant that has stood the test of time.
Edmonton?
What also helped was how they played every part and performed every sketch like it was serious.
Too many great comedians coming at me from all directions. Gotta hit the pause button periodically to save myself from laughter convulsions!
Beauty and the Beets was one of my mom's favorite sketches!
Nothing has made me laugh as hard as SCTV.
25:19 - The Midnight Express Special! John Denver singing Rocky Mountain High from the dank depths of the Turkish Prison. Anne Murray singing Snowbird as she endlessly circles the walking pillar. Pure 100% Grade A comedy right there.
👍Classic awesomeness! 😂
unmatched brilliance.
Martin Scorsese directed 'An Afternoon With SCTV' in 2018 at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jimmy Kimmel was the host. The release date is yet to be determined.
Such a great cats there always was such great writing and wonderful funny stuff.
Trilogy of Terror???
This one of best s c t v shows that I never saw GREAT .
SCTV was more funner than Saturday night live on NBC
The thing is, they both came from the same mind :) Lorne Michaels, Canadian :)
+Kyle Ruggles Although Lorne Michaels was Canadian, he had nothing to do with SCTV. He did, however, produce another iconic sketch show-"The Kids in the Hall"-for HBO.
More funner? Really? Dude, that's HORRIBLE English. Something isn't more funner. The word funner already implies that it is MORE fun.
@@Danimal77 you are obviously more smarter than Julian Smith.
@@Danimal77 funner is one of our better words. It is pretty good english, 91.3 on the scale. No horror. False 911 call on your part.
Your GF walks on egg shells.
Hall and Oates in: "Chariots of Eggs" - ha ha I'm dying
I grew up on National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live, and this lunacy. No wonder I'm awhoooooo...Count Floyd!!!
Towering Inferno !!!! Greatest skit ever !!
Oh, THANK YOU for putting this reel together of this one of a kind TV classic sitcom THE GREAT SCTV!
There has never been a brilliant sitcom like SCTV ever, and now, with the Politically Correct World, we are stuck in.
Nothing like SCTV or many other old TV shows could ever be made again because real humor and laughter has been silenced!
😢
So Thanks for archiving these episodes and uploading them to RUclips to show people what our censored but FUNNY and not Politically Correct TV looked like and what real laughter feels like!
Bwahahaha!!
3D House of Stewardess!👀❤👀
❤️🇨🇦🎉😂💃🏻😘
20:42 “One little squeeze will determine the freshness.....,like this” Too damn funny!
My favorite!!
Brilliant !!!!!
Polynesian Town... now there was a fine piece of movie making... they had that great crane shot. It was just great..
Then everybody ate the ribs...
Wow! Every cast member unique and funny as hell. Lots of belly laughs.
The Vic Arpeggio was a satire on a real show called "Johnny Stacatto"
amazing upload. wow. SCTV ruled. "Broads behind bars" was a riot. I have to look for that again.
the real / original theme music, as posted here - is SO much better than the music which has replaced it on all of the dvd box sets.....
Crazy brilliance!
a Treasure...one of the greatest shows in History!!!
The original theme music - here - was so much better than "new" theme music on the DVD's
Big bazoomba's! 😂
+ generalBlasto This has *got* to be the best video on all of RUclips! Thank you for putting this together. I can't say enough about it. I remember most of these bits very well and there are some I don't recall having seen. What a hilarious compilation! I appreciate all the time you put into this project. Thanks again!!!!
Unbelievably funny! Humor doesn’t exist anymore.
I loved the Fantasy Island episode. "I hate you, you cheap little device for exposition!"
and "You pulled that one on me on The Road to Dien Bien Phu!"
Ann Murray in Midnight Express walking the circle scene, LOL
Nothing today comes close to this comic genius, in my opinion.
Comic genius
i look to SCTV for my major inspiration
Love the shot of Downtown Toronto at 42 minutes.....my how its changed since then !!
Good stuff man!!!!!
Always Thursday at Nine. How do they fit so many shows into that hour?
J La R you will never be forgotten 😊
When will all the music be cleared and when will we get the whole thing on DVD/Blu-ray? This series has been put on hold for far too long and no one is doing anything it seems. Very sad.
I think they're waiting until half the audience dies out.
"An Officer And A Gentile"---LOLOL!!! This is what (well, one of so many things) set SCTV apart from SNL and FRIDAYS andthings I'm forgetting...the ingredient is literate sketch that did not treat it's audience like dummies.
Genius ! Complete genius!
Thanks for excellence
John Candy as William B,on The Sammy Maudlin Show and as Johnny Larue,Sctv Celebrity, With Lorna Minelli and Lola Heatherton
"Yeah, I've made alot of mistakes in my life. But, I'll tell ya one thing. If I make a mistake as mayor, you're gonna know about it."
Lol. Joe Flaherty is such an under rated talent.
Just found this Thanks!
RIP James Ingram 🕯
Keep them coming Thanx steve
When you said that crane job was gonna cost 10 big ones I thought you meant 10 bucks. hahaha
Catherine O'Hara as Lola Heatherton on Sctv, in Her Special at 9PM
leave it to beaver, what a CLASSIC! WARD WEREN'T YOU A LITTLE HARD ON THE BEAVER LAST NIGHT? I LOVED THIS SHOW., you should make a tribute show for { JOHN CANDY} in his memory???????
The Fishing Musician, with Gil Fisher and Joe Walsh
There was a great episode with Mollys Craft Corner , home of the bingo drop tray.
Crazy Crafts with Molly Earl ! I staged an Xmas version of the Half Wits with my family, including my aunt Anne playing the inventor of the amazing bingo drop can and Nana as Blanche Raye-Kellogg
Dave Thomas as Harvey K-Tel picking up chicks at 4:21! I looped that 20 times!
Bouncing Back to You, Starring Lola Heatherton
These guys were funnier than Saturday Night Live.....
I like that it's more freeform than SNL. I just find it to be more pure comedy without the cool-school attitude or the politics.
Best comedy show ever...
A comedy tour de force.
5 stars!!
Wish i could have been back stage
with these guy's. Now that would have been a party...
🔜☮☦☯️🕊
Joe Flaherty from Pittsburgh
Genius is eternal.
All good stuff.
Nice!
Galaxy 66. I want to see. And the nutty lab assistant. ANd some others I have not seen.
Linsk Minyk is an entertainer in the truest sense of the word.
Billy Murray on Sctv
Tired of Ordinary Television? Once Again, Sctv, from Canada is now on The Air ,Always Free on RUclips
Bobby Bittman and Lola Heatherton
I guess I gotta go to this thing
Luv Sid Dithers, Did you Drov or did you Flew
Sure wish Scrapco was still around to sponsor the arts.
Levy as Freddy Fender LOL
Seriously, I've tried to eat beets, but I can't.
I don't know why people keep comparing SNL and SCTV... these shows are apples and oranges...
One is LIVE.. and "constructed"in a week
that difference allows for SCTV to be far more satirical and cerebral.
When they are recreating a old TV show or movie etc...the attention to detail is incredible.
Most all of it filled with very obscure references...
SNL goes for the easy laugh generally.....broad strokes ..almost by necessity
They wouldn't have time to ever do what
SCTV did.
If they were created similarly ....the SNL.casts would have been able to explore those themes.
Just watch the old Belushi dancing on the graves segment.
It's weird how there's this craze of comparing the two shows on RUclips comments now. Tedious too.
the 'madtv is so much better than snl' comment is so annoying as well. Just enjoy the comedy you geniuses of criticism.
Nobody would be comparing if SNL hadn’t been so awful for so long, perpetrated by its own “necessity”
Everything is coming soon. But did it eventually come?
SANTA! - Santa Claus is here on tape! 40:12 Get the kids to gather and watch!!
The makeup crew were GREAT AM I RIGHT OR AM I RIGHT. ………. STEVE
3D House of Stewardesses
I Was A Teenage Communist!
3-D House of Stewardesses or 3-D House of Slave Chicks?
Catherine O'Hara and Andrea Martin
When the show is indicated it was very funny. And inventive. And they did lift some of their material. And it’s later years it turned out to be something like what you’re saying here. That’s why John Candy left. The show ended up with poor ratings and getting canceled. Think about that. When they started to develop these characters and have this long segments with the same characters that were sort of cynical versions of pop-culture singers and performers that you would see on talk shows the show took a nose dive.
22:45 is that Andre Braugher?
I would like to see all of carls cuts very funny very strange ……..
Lin Yee Tang on the Maudlin show!! There is no way in hell that would be made and aired today and I'm actually surprised RUclips hasn't pulled stuff like that already. I'm a fairly liberal person but also an *older* liberal person and I say chill out with this PC bullshit and just enjoy the humor! no one is thinking disparagingly of Asian persons after watching that.