Sounds like almost everyone I knew and know thoughout my lifetime, anywhere and everywhere. Sadly. Life's journey and addiction and abuse cycles are all there in the foreground or in the background. Grim.@@user-og2wt3le4j
Funniest thing I've ever seen. The hand gestures and mannerisms are eerily genuine. "They call me a tramp". Lola is a true star...no matter what she does always comes back in a big way. And the way Caballero jumps out of his wheelchair!
I love how she staggers around the stage like she’s drunk or high. Then there’s the angry outbursts, the shaky singing, and the TMI lyrics. Lola is a hilarious trainwreck! 😂
It is one of the great comic performances ever, and one of the funniest characters ever created. It takes incredible talent to portray such an outrageously terrible variety performer such as 'Lola Heatherton'. Her 'catchphrases' still crack me up. "I wanna bear your children" or "Bobby Bittman, you're so sincere it's scary". I watch SCTV clips almost on a daily basis, and I marvel at the superb comic timing that these performers had. Their comedy was clean----people of all ages could enjoy it. These talented people created characters that were funny. I do not find most of today's so-called 'funny people' the least bit funny!
I've been looking for this treasure on YT for a while. Lola just SMACKS into, I dunno, being Lola. It's her, to the hilt. The epitome of showbiz self-pity. I don't even know if there's a way for comedy to dig further into comedy. So hilarious, it's scary!
* She (Lola) always told guys on Sammy Maudlin show "I want to bear your children" but freaked when Bobby Bittman offered to fulfill that faux request. ☺
Imo, she 's the GOAT performer on any ensemble comedic skit show ever, and I'm not sure it's particularly close. Absolute immersion into her characters, with incredible wit and style. She's doing high art while everyone else is doing pop art. Total genius level actress, comedienne, and performer.
Over 40 years later, Lola is still at it. She's doing 21 shows a week as the opening act at the Bobby Bitman Theater in Branson, Missouri. The girl's still got it!
I'm not sure what my favorite part of this is: her attempt at a vibrato, or the fact that her lips look like she wolfed down a frosted cupcake just before coming onstage and no napkin was within reach.
During this great show’s original run I wouldn’t miss an episode. My brother Rick and our friend Larry and I watched and roared until our sides ached. Today the characters are old friends, dialogue is memorized and all sorts of phrases are in our everyday lexicon (I’ll take the damned thing without ice!). Kids today don’t know what they’re missing. Thanks for posting this!
Yep. I followed them in real time from Global TV to CBC to NBC and then FirstChoice then the CityTV reruns. I went to the same high school as John Candy and when he visited one day, I showed him I was a superfan by telling him I even liked his Big City Comedy show on CTV. lol
The melody is by Henry Mancini - Soldier In The Rain, 1963. I found versions of it on RUclips with lyrics, but not Lola's lyrics. So, I wonder who wrote these lyrics? Someone at SCTV? Or are they from a pre-existing musical? The tune is beautiful (naturally, being a Mancini composition). I find Lola's lyrics to be really good also. They suit Lola, but I can also imagine them being from some kind of "Valley Of The Dolls"-type theatre production.
It's so funny to see about 10x as many people commenting that they watched these when first aired, than anyone actually ever did. If that were true, it'd still be on. The funniest show on television at the time, that very few people saw.
@Thou Swell The biggest difference was one was live, and the other was not! Arguably SNL had a much more difficult job. SCTV Seemed more connected to obtuse British humour (and thus spoke to me more), and I found SNL skits, even when funny, dragged on too long.
IN MEMORIAM: Lola was so misunderstood. A tragic life lived badly and without couth, taste or class. But still, we couldn't help but fall in love with her.
Lola, after being ignominiously escorted off the 'Bouncing' set.. lamented to a stagehand..'And there WAS a menage-a-trois with Pavarotti and Wells at the Liberace Christmas gala..after the romp Orson stole the Christmas turkey..and Luciano ate all the cheese dip'..
So true! I clearly remember as a Little kid (maybe 7or8 years old) my mom used that same lipstick ! That's how great SCTV is, that attention to detail.
@@matthewgray469 "Lola Heatherton" really could have appeared on the Dean Martin or Red Skelton show back in the late 60s and early 70s. The real Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton shared many of her same traits.
@@MrEab2010 Yes ,and In all seriousness, we should give some thanks to Joey Heatherton for her help with Bob Hope during the USO tours back. In the Vietnam war era
@@matthewgray469 overlooked in their making fun of these women is the point SCTV was trying to make that these women were so messed up emotionally because of their often extreme exploitation and abuse by men in show business.
THANKS RUclips! This was always my favourite SCTV skit with the tragic/hilarious trainwreck Lola Heatherton, played by the phenomenal Catherine O'Hara. SCTV was always LEAGUES better than that grim SNL that people rave about when, aside from the odd skit or two to open it, it's been embarrassingly and painfully UNFUNNY for decades already.
Some of the early SCTV years must be protected because that stuff will show up for a few months then disappear. There was a version of this skit that included the opening with the male dancers doing "Lola" to the tune of Copa Cabana. Catherine O'Hara does a perfect, pilled up on high heels fall.
Probably because they freely used whatever music they wanted without getting the rights for mediums outside broadcast. That's what held up the DVDs for decades.
Catherine O'Hara is a comic genius!
Catherine O'Hara excels at everything she does...she's pure genius!
Poor Lola goes from man to man, nervous breakdown to nervous breakdown, bottle to bottle. LOL. I love her!
Same with many celebrities today in 2024. I heard Lola Heatherton was a parody of a popular 1970s singer Joey Heatherton.
Sounds like almost everyone I knew and know thoughout my lifetime, anywhere and everywhere. Sadly. Life's journey and addiction and abuse cycles are all there in the foreground or in the background. Grim.@@user-og2wt3le4j
lol. True.
"You're all just parasites draining me of love"
Truly one of the sublime moments in TV history.
This is far better than SNL
Just gets me every time. Truly genius.
The quivering lips LOL! I remember watching the original broadcast! Catherine's stuff stands the test of time for sure :)
“You know the one!!! The one yooooouuuu didn’t want me to do!” Lmao!!!
I always marveled at Lola’s natural ability to not just sing a song, but live it! And what a remarkable vibrato she had. A shimmering star.
My god she is breathtaking. Pathos and hilarity...truly the mistress of comedy improvisation.
“GET HER OFF!” As he stands up from his wheelchair. This skit is completely over the top. Catherine kills it, as usual.
Funniest thing I've ever seen. The hand gestures and mannerisms are eerily genuine. "They call me a tramp". Lola is a true star...no matter what she does always comes back in a big way. And the way Caballero jumps out of his wheelchair!
This deserves every possible award there is! Best comic performance! Best dramatic performance! Best original song! Just, wow!
antoniosoul
A million thumbs up! Great comment!! Just WOW!
Her character has been through so much, you almost feel sorry for Lola.
I haven't seen this clip since it first aired -- but I could still remember the lyrics! That's how indelible it was.
i think its been like, 40 years? and i STILL laff so hard i cry.
f.y.i.: yes, when sctv first aired, we did realize we were watching pure genius.
I love how she staggers around the stage like she’s drunk or high. Then there’s the angry outbursts, the shaky singing, and the TMI lyrics. Lola is a hilarious trainwreck! 😂
It is one of the great comic performances ever, and one of the funniest characters ever created. It takes incredible talent to portray such an outrageously terrible variety performer such as 'Lola Heatherton'. Her 'catchphrases' still crack me up. "I wanna bear your children" or "Bobby Bittman, you're so sincere it's scary". I watch SCTV clips almost on a daily basis, and I marvel at the superb comic timing that these performers had. Their comedy was clean----people of all ages could enjoy it. These talented people created characters that were funny. I do not find most of today's so-called 'funny people' the least bit funny!
How could such a small body contain all that talent? Lola was the tops.
So glad I grew up with this as my go-to for comedy, so multilayered, and Catherine O'Hara is a national treasure!
as Guy Cabellero LEAPS out of his wheelchair!
He only uses it for respect.
I always loved Catherine O'hara as Lola Heatherton.
This is flipping genius. I want to see this song covered.
I've been looking for this treasure on YT for a while. Lola just SMACKS into, I dunno, being Lola. It's her, to the hilt. The epitome of showbiz self-pity. I don't even know if there's a way for comedy to dig further into comedy. So hilarious, it's scary!
Lola Heatherton was my favourite character Catherine O'Hara did on SCTV.
One of the greatest things ever broadcast.
This cast was just amazing! Catherine O Hara and Andrea Martin are comic geniuses.
The men were funny, but Catherine and Andrea were just fantastic.
* Andrea's Edith Prickley looked like the mom of a childhood pal of mine. ♣
Really -- two great giants of comedy.
WytZox1 Oh!!! I wish I could have met your friends mom. I wish I would have lived next door to her. 👍❤️
I have always loved this scene, especially when she falls down coming on stage, haha. "I love you all..."
Poor Lola, someone broke her heart and now she's droppin' names! Yikes!
Purest comedy genius! I love Catherine O'Hara - she is theee best! I WANT HER TO BEAR MY CHILDREN!
* She (Lola) always told guys on Sammy Maudlin show "I want to bear your children" but freaked when Bobby Bittman offered to fulfill that faux request. ☺
Damn, you beat me to it! 🥴
i keep coming back to this performance!!!
It was a wonderful show. A classic with unique skits.
She was so good in "On the Waterfront...Again"....heavy dram-ma at it's best!
"they'll kill you, they'll KILL YOOO!"
She is like Judy-the latter years, she is a comic that makes me proud to be Canadian
"Mr Bobby 'How Was I?" Bittman! Mr Johnny 'Why Don't You Just Suffocate Me?' Larue!"
Imo, she 's the GOAT performer on any ensemble comedic skit show ever, and I'm not sure it's particularly close. Absolute immersion into her characters, with incredible wit and style. She's doing high art while everyone else is doing pop art. Total genius level actress, comedienne, and performer.
A tragic, turbulent love life leads to this kind of thing, hysterical how Guy hoped up out of his wheelchair! Lola was naming names!! LOL
She’s brilliant!
This whole episode rules. Great classic stuff.
I'm just loving these old SCTV clips. All of the cast was supremely talented. They crack me up all day long.
I love the jazz hands at the end.
BRAVO! BRAVO! Oh MY GAWD! SHE is Fabulous! Where is pure musical genius, pure musical talent when we need it? BRAVO!!!
Over 40 years later, Lola is still at it. She's doing 21 shows a week as the opening act at the Bobby Bitman Theater in Branson, Missouri. The girl's still got it!
I usually never comment twice, but I couldn’t resist. “”You know the one! The one YOOOU didn’t want me to DOOOO!” Line of the century.
Love them all so much
SCTV gang
I think we all knew Lola would crash someday. I just wish it hadn't been so public.
Theee funiest people EVER assembled on God's green Earth !!! My life was made more enjoyable & tolerable because of them!!
I'm not sure what my favorite part of this is: her attempt at a vibrato, or the fact that her lips look like she wolfed down a frosted cupcake just before coming onstage and no napkin was within reach.
Greatest vibrato in the industry.
Damn Catherine was fine.
During this great show’s original run I wouldn’t miss an episode. My brother Rick and our friend Larry and I watched and roared until our sides ached. Today the characters are old friends, dialogue is memorized and all sorts of phrases are in our everyday lexicon (I’ll take the damned thing without ice!).
Kids today don’t know what they’re missing.
Thanks for posting this!
Because my husband laughed with me....... we married.
elderly poodle That’s great! At least I hope it was... are you still together and laughing?
Yep. I followed them in real time from Global TV to CBC to NBC and then FirstChoice then the CityTV reruns. I went to the same high school as John Candy and when he visited one day, I showed him I was a superfan by telling him I even liked his Big City Comedy show on CTV. lol
Lola and Guy Caballero together in a video????😂 too much for my little old heart to bear ❤❤❤❤❤❤
These gems explain QUITE clearly why Catherine - 40 plus years later - is ROCKING it on Schitt's Creek. Talent has no age.
The melody is by Henry Mancini - Soldier In The Rain, 1963. I found versions of it on RUclips with lyrics, but not Lola's lyrics. So, I wonder who wrote these lyrics? Someone at SCTV? Or are they from a pre-existing musical? The tune is beautiful (naturally, being a Mancini composition). I find Lola's lyrics to be really good also. They suit Lola, but I can also imagine them being from some kind of "Valley Of The Dolls"-type theatre production.
"No one caaaaaaaaares! No one daaaaaaaares......"
The one YOUUUUUUUUU didn't want me to DOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bobby “How Was I” Bitman
It's so funny to see about 10x as many people commenting that they watched these when first aired, than anyone actually ever did. If that were true, it'd still be on. The funniest show on television at the time, that very few people saw.
Don't forget those Juul Haalmeyer Dancers.
I loved SCTV, far better than SNL.
SCTV was not live, which makes it really different, but yeah, I agree
todd: I'm begining to think that a bot is making that comment on every every sctv skit.
@Thou Swell The biggest difference was one was live, and the other was not! Arguably SNL had a much more difficult job. SCTV Seemed more connected to obtuse British humour (and thus spoke to me more), and I found SNL skits, even when funny, dragged on too long.
Definitely!
@@theCount1968 I disagree with almost everything you wrote
This is priceless 😂😂😂
ok...I AM DOING THIS NUMBER FOR MY 50th B-Day! party! LOVE!!!! my Mom is gonna faint!!!
Woulda been something to hear Lola duet with Andrea Martin as Linda Lavin.
"Than it's your funeral!"
Man, I wonder what Joey Heatherton thought of this AND Lola Felana! Lola Heatherton was a rip on hyper-sexualized lady singers.
The lipstick is perfect.
That quivering lip...lol
Jimmy J She does the same class move in " My Bloody Hand!"
Guy leaps out of his wheelchair. Lmao
Not only brilliantly funny but bits are actually really good.
I love the Guy Caballero surprise jump. After Lola mentions his name.😂
Catherine is amazing. That little extended shiver when she "you're all just parasites, draining me of luuuuvvvvvvvv" it's too perfect.
She is BRILLIANT!
I welcomed Joe Flaherty's cartoonish jump out of the wheelchair at that point, because her meltdown was almost too well-acted to be funny.
That phony boloney flash pop-up was hilarious.
I know what you mean. The way she sings the song, like she's crushed with utter hopelessness and despair, almost choked me up. Those lyrics!
Pathetically hilarious. I LOVE YOU!
This made me cry, so emotional 😢
"Sammy Maudlin, I want to have all your children." God, she was terrific!
IN MEMORIAM: Lola was so misunderstood.
A tragic life lived badly and without couth, taste or class.
But still, we couldn't help but fall in love with her.
Such a talented cast of people however they can’t touch Catherine O’Hara’s performance here. Such a brilliant display, she steals the show.
Lola, after being ignominiously escorted off the 'Bouncing' set.. lamented to a stagehand..'And there WAS a menage-a-trois with Pavarotti and Wells at the Liberace Christmas gala..after the romp Orson stole the Christmas turkey..and Luciano ate all the cheese dip'..
What a great song..
Lola breaks my heart.
Joey Heatherton and Lola Falana never looked and sounded better!
Sondheim classic. Never been done better Lola.
Her opening act should be the 5 neat guys
"You know who I'm talking about.... Mr. Guy Cabalarow" 🤣🤣🤣
She is a goddess.
I used to be a musician on cruise ships... this ain't that far off. SCTV is still great!
Intense, wow.
perfect, right down to the lip gloss.
Hahaha! Definitely the lip gloss
So true! I clearly remember as a Little kid (maybe 7or8 years old) my mom used that same lipstick ! That's how great SCTV is, that attention to detail.
@@matthewgray469 "Lola Heatherton" really could have appeared on the Dean Martin or Red Skelton show back in the late 60s and early 70s. The real Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton shared many of her same traits.
@@MrEab2010 Yes ,and In all seriousness, we should give some thanks to Joey Heatherton for her help with Bob Hope during the USO tours back. In the Vietnam war era
@@matthewgray469 overlooked in their making fun of these women is the point SCTV was trying to make that these women were so messed up emotionally because of their often extreme exploitation and abuse by men in show business.
Funniest show ever. Honestly, used to laugh until I cried.
that was a moving performance
THANKS RUclips! This was always my favourite SCTV skit with the tragic/hilarious trainwreck Lola Heatherton, played by the phenomenal Catherine O'Hara. SCTV was always LEAGUES better than that grim SNL that people rave about when, aside from the odd skit or two to open it, it's been embarrassingly and painfully UNFUNNY for decades already.
Love the song 🎵😽
Thanks for posting.
Beautiful lyric.
Some of the early SCTV years must be protected because that stuff will show up for a few months then disappear. There was a version of this skit that included the opening with the male dancers doing "Lola" to the tune of Copa Cabana. Catherine O'Hara does a perfect, pilled up on high heels fall.
Probably because they freely used whatever music they wanted without getting the rights for mediums outside broadcast. That's what held up the DVDs for decades.
It’s actually a pretty good song.
Incredible Saturday nights on NYC television 1970s: SCTV, then SNL followed by The Uncle Floyd Show! Fuhgeddaboutit!
Fabulous !! LOL !!
I can't believe Lola, the love of my life is having a breakdown. I love you! I want you to bear my children!
Shades of Judy....
FUCKING HILARIOUS. ABSOLUTELY, HANDS DOWN. THE BEST COMEDY EVER!!!! SCTV
again I returned because this is great talent at every level!!
thanks i love her
"I want to bear your Children !"