American Reacts to SCTV Great White North | Bob and Doug McKenzie
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You haven't seen Bob and Doug until you listen to them sing the "12 days of Christmas". what a hoot!
Come on keep Christmas in the back for 2 more mouths. Right now it Thanksgiving. But it is a funny canada Christmas song
@@dpcnreactions7062 ohh Bob and Doug's 12 days beats the 12 pains 😂
It's Oct in Canada, it's happy there's no snow yet, lol keep Christmas back a couple months, what are ya a Christmas eve shopper 😆
Another great song they did was "Take Off", which also features Geddy Lee of Rush. It managed to crack the top 40 in the States for a little while.
They gave Getty Lee of Rush ten bucks to sing on their Take Off song
I've got the LP.
4 pounds of backbacon. 3 french toast. 2 turtlenecks. And a beer.
In a tree!
in a tree :}
SCTV (Second City Television) was a show which featured a lot of Canadian comedians in sketch comedy. Many outstanding comedians were on this show including John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Andrea Martin. These two are Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. My teen years were spent laughing my head off at this show and still laugh to this day. It's like the Monty Python of Canada.
There was also Second City in the US, I am thinking Chicago? Both Second City troupes were feeders to what would be SNL...
Great show!🇨🇦
You should watch more SCTV in general Tyler, I think you'll love it.
Tyler needs to start watching SCTV to see the entire set of skits in a row. This shit is too funny!
I loved this show as a kid. My older sisters had their Christmas album, and we'd listen to it all the time. At the height of their popularity the local radio station in my hometown (Terrace BC) had a contest to see who can best sing the Bob and Doug Mackenzie theme music (the 🎶 Ku-lu-ku-ku-ku-ku🎶 theme, not the 🎶Take off, to the Great White North! Take off, it's a beauty way to go!🎶 one). My sisters kept trying to get me to enter the contest. I was really good at singing 🎶 Ku-lu-ku-ku-ku-ku 🎶, but I was too shy to do it over the radio. I remember this was the year that it was so cold and we had such a heavy snowfall that the local authorities suspended the need for hunting licenses for any families that lived too far from the supermarket to be able to trave in the snow to buy groceries. Crazy winter.
I was in Mexico, as a Canadian I did the call and I was answered by another Canadian… funniest thing ever
No passport or government identification required!
U did it as well in Mo Bay and got a call back as well
@@RobertBreedon-c3b hahahahah! Canadian here as well. From up north Ontario. Placed called Mattawa. Been in TO for 30 years now.
Back bacon is a solid piece of pork rolled in cornmeal. Cut into thicker slices than regular bacon straps. Back bacon does not have as much grease leftover when the slices are fried.
That is epic😂
The CRTC actually required SCTV to have a particular amount of Canadian content, and as a result Dave and Rick came up with a tongue in cheek parody of what non-Canuck's think we're like, Eh.
Also included the part about the 4 Americans trying hard to meet the Canadian Content requirements of the CRTC.
Those requirements are what kept the Canadian film industry from making movies that would have matched or outdone Hollywood. The World just doesn't "get" (understand) our Canadian Content films except for those produced in french in Quebec, which the Americans would totally ignore as a foreign language film.
Sctv was a program that ran on various networks, started on global, then cbc. It actually ran on nbc in the US for a couple of years, then moved to pay TV. Ran from '76-84.
Great White North was a short filler segment, which turned into a big hit, and a feature movie. The number of comedians that went onto stardom was huge. 😊
They made an outrageously Canadian skit that could not be deemed anything other than Canadian Content.
@@glendeveau4056 slight correct, but I thought the Canadian Radio Television Commission (CRTC) requirements were for broadcast stations (tv and radio) to air a specific number of hours per week to Canadian content. Even went to specify "prime time" hours of Canadian content.
Memory might be off, so corrections are welcome.
@@kenlowe-ca I don't know, maybe I'm just blowing smoke out my ass, I'm not an expert, it's just a summation of what I heard
This show came much before Wayne's World. Mike Myers of Wayne's World is Canadian and would have watched SCTV and Bob and Doug McKenzie's Great White North while he was growing up so if there is any imitation, it would have come from him. He's 1 year older than me and SCTV was very big in our teen years.
I saw Mike Myers perform standup at Second City club in Toronto 1994. One of the skits was Road Hockey. Car.
Remember that Lorne Michaels who created Saturday Night Live is also Canadian!
Cheers.
Mike Myers’s probably did improv with these guys in the Comedy and Jim Cary, Ackroyd all were doing the comedy circuit at this time.
@@kenlowe-caI didn’t know that so many Comedy Greats from Canada
These 2 single handedly set the stereotype of Canadians for Americans 40 years ago and counting.
😆🤣 So true.
They really did!
You NEED to listen to their 12 days of Christmas. Ultra funny.
Happ Thanksgiving my fellow Canucks.
Same to you
Back at you bro...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Gobble till you wobble!
I grew up with Bob and Doug McKenzie, they were like a part of the family:) The Great White North started about 8 years before Wayne's World. Happy Thanksgiving Canada!
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
Back in the day there wasn't enough Canadian content on TV. It was always being discussed how important it was for Canadian values to be represented on screen through our unique content. SCTV responded by going as Canadian as possible with this skit. Bob and Doug were born, usually with no script. You can also see where Mike Meyers got the inspiration for Wayne's World.
Further: The CRTC started mandating Canadian Content and providing tax credits, incentives and funding for it. They came up with a list of what qualifies as Canadian Content, so SCTV included this skit to parody the regulations by providing this segment. The skit with the regulatory info is them saying that explicitly to the government and making fun of them in the most Canadian way possible, eh?
@@ZeroIsEven Both of you are spot on, and those facts are a huge part of what makes these segments genius.I guess the second fact is that NO American would understand the politics, nor would they care. They found the segments funny because the vast majority of them truly believe Bob and Doug are the genuine article, not any sort of cliche or parody. The small percentage that are in on the joke love the segments for the same reasons Canadians do. The unfortunate side effect is that funny or not, Bob and Doug do reinforce
the Canadian Hick reputation. The positive side of the loonie? Never mind Wayne's World, would the brilliant Trailer Park Boys exist without Bob and Doug?
And dont forget Letterkenny@@charlyW34
Happy Thanksgiving Canadians and honorary Canadian, Tyler.
Great White North was made into a movie called Strange Brew
Starring these two (Rick and Dave) and the great Max Von Sydow.
Strange brew was filmed in my home towns local brewery. This is our only claim to fame. Unless you count that video of the guys riding couches down the cutbanks
Alot of burps, and flatulence 😅
Yeah never forgot when they spin tail of MGM lion
That no Talent hack writer William Shakespeare completely ripped off Strange Brew when he wrote Hamlet. Even the English couldn't help but steal from Canada
Back in the 70's we ended almost every sentence with an "eh".
Finally, Bob and Doug. These two were cultural icons of my youth. We all loved them.
Oh yeah!
Absolute classics, eh!
I never loved them. Not much about them is actually funny.
@@Shan_Dalamani You had to be elementary school. They were worshipped by every guy in my class. We even sang the Roo Koo Koo song in solidarity.
@@ryanm7171 My preferences for Canadian comedy include Wayne & Shuster, Rick Mercer, Red Green, and the Royal Canadian Air Farce.
UPDATE Correction
SCTV began in 1976. “The show itself bears no "created by" credit, although it gives "developed by" credits to Bernard Sahlins and Andrew Alexander.. -Wikipedia.
"@CanadianArchivist
1 day ago
SCTV began in 1976. It was created by Lorne Michaels that started SNL the year before."
Lorne Michaels had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the creation of SCTV.
@@meyerhave😊
I'm Canadian. This is Canadian culture at its best! These guys are supposed to be "typical Canadians" in fun. Oh yes, long underwear is a real thing up here for winter.
And, like, Quaker's maple and brown sugar instant, eh.
Literally wearing mine right now!!
@@alanlafond9705 Hosehead wears his year round eh!
Ya we had real Canadian work out clothes before they were called 'yoga pants'. We used to go chop wood in long underwear when the fire was going out eh! Yoga pants are just posers. Pass me another beer hoser.
Yup, you were spot on, Mike Myers is Canadian and Wayne and Garth on SNL's Wayne's World were inspired by Bob & Doug.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone 😊 Bob and Doug..most Canadian thing ever 😂
Yeah, I’m so glad you finally did one on Bob, and Doug eh!!! Happy thanksgiving fellow Canadians ❤
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
The number of comedy mega stars that came out of SCTV is unbelievable.
The Hudson Bay Company is a very old company that goes back to fur trading days and would become a staple for Canadian retail especially with things like house wares, clothing, and furniture.
Happy Thanksgiving My Fellow Hoser's ❤
Happy Thanksgiving yourself, my fellow hoser! Hope it's a great one!
Yeah! and Happy Thanksgiving back, eh. Have more beers.
@@karenburrows9184 Take Off! , Eh 🤣
@@chrisfields3589 😂
OMG! Hosers, haven’t heard that word in years 😂
I was a teenager when this aired. All Canadian made shows must have 20% Canadian content (radio stations up here must also play 20% Canadian content per hour). This was a two minute segment on a skit show called SCTV. (Second City Television) In the early to mid 80s, these guys were very popular in the U.S.
The particular sketch was a direct poke at Canadian Content rules put in place by the CRTC.
BTW - This is where the term 'Hoser' comes from ... these two popularized the term and defined it for all of us at a certain age.
Not quite. The show already met CanCon regulations. The Great White North was a middle finger to the CBC which began airing the show but they run fewer commercials, so each episode was 2 minutes short. The CBC asked for additional material, which had to be "Canadian" in some way.
@@exile220ify agreed
The term hoser predated Bob and Doug.
@@ickster23 you are probably correct, but they made it nationwide. I personally hadn't heard the term until SCTV.
Back in the late 70s & early 80s, our Saturday Night ritual would be to watch SNL followed by SCTV at Midnight.
SCTV IS COMEDY GOLD with all of the ST☆RS that EMERGED from this Show!
SCTV was a Canadian comedy show initially produced and filmed in Edmonton Alberta at the ITV (Global TV studios) then moved to Toronto. Bob & Doug (The Great White North) skits predate the SNL "Wayne's World" sketches (features Canadian Mike Myers) by several years
Like about 40.
Actually, only about ten years. Great white north came out around 1980 and Wayne’s World on SNL started around 1989/1990.
i noticed their statue while watching the stanley cup finals this year ~ didnt know that it was produced in edmonton so there you go ~ so cool ~
@@bowenconnection450 SCTV ran from 1976 to 1984
You've got that a little backwards there. Seasons 1 and 2 were filmed in Toronto at the Global TV studios, then moved to Edmonton for season 3. Seasons 4 to 6 were then with NBC.
Bob and Doug got together with Rush and recorded the song "Take off (to the Great White North)" , it definitely added to the theme 👍
The Toronto branch of Chicago's Second City improv group had a Canadian TV show called SCTV (Second City TV), where many stars later known for their movie work in the U.S. developed their craft. (John Candy, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis) This segment was an improvised 2 minute filler segment which was needed because of CBC airing one less commercial than the Global network. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas were told it had to be Canadian content, so they mocked that rule by exaggerating the stereotype. Each actor played many different parts per episode. Moranis and Thomas also have sketches as Woody Allen and Bob Hope. Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner were also part of the Toronto Second City stage cast before going to SNL at the request of Canadian show runner Lorne Michaels. Many Americans got the Canadian stereotype from watching these guys when the show played on NBC in 1981.
Thanks for typing this out, eh. Like, it was too hard for me, like, because I have a dart and a brew going here and I can only use one hand, eh. But, like, Tyler here, like, needs to know the whole context of the “Take off, eh” salute, eh, to the CRTC, eh, that, like, “The Great Whir North” really is, eh. Good day, eh.
@@dorothyfielding8209they don't fills your boots with funny much eh! do they Dot 😂
OMG! I absolutely LOVED SCTV GREAT WHITE NORTH! Also obviously all the other skits 😊 What a classic Canadian show! I SOOOOOOooooooo miss this one! Cheers 🍻 to all my fellow Canuck’s! ❤😊
The Ku Ku Ku sound is Doug trying to imitate the loon in the Hinterland PSA's.
Hinterland Who’s Who. 🇨🇦
The story is the Thomas family had been living in the US while their father was completing post graduate work. When they returned to Canada they were struck by the PSAs that were on Canadian TV, particularly Hinterland Who's Who. Coo de Coo Coo is not the sound of a loon but the recorder riff at the beginning of the PSA. It is also where Ian Thomas got his opening and theme for his hit song Pilot. Rick Moranis was a DJ previously and when Ian Thomas guested on SCTV, Moranis requested he do Pilot.
@@jethro1963 that recorder solo was going through my brain during 2020 didn't know the song, and then I heard it playing at Superstore I heard "Deliver us from the fire we have made" and searched it finding it was 'Doug's' brother Ian Thomas
@@edwardlazich1140 It's funny how many songs that I remembered from childhood and didn't know the title or who did them that I was able to discover when the Internet and search engines came along. Oddly enough many of them were from The Sweet (or Sweet): ie Poppa Joe, Little Willy, Fox on the Run. Obviously Ian Thomas's biggest hit was Painted Ladies but there was Pilot, Hold On and my favourite Coming Home which was another of those memorable but needed a search songs (for me)
@@jethro1963 many songs from the 70s are coming back to me like "Rock Me Baby"
Awesome. SCTV is home to many comedians you would know. Next up watch "Kids in the Hall"
These are the Dave’s I know I know these are the Daves I know..
Loved Kids in the Hall!
Great video Tyler! This was a huge partnof my childhood (SCTV) and many of us do talk a lot like this. Myself included
Take off, eh?!
😁😁😁
You take off Hoser lol
To the Great White North, take off, it's a beauty way to go.
@@robertaewing5468 You first, eh?!
SCTV stand for Second City Television, the "Second City" it refers to is Chicago, which was the 2nd largest city in the USA for many years. All the actors on the show started of with the Second City Comedy Troupe there along with most of the cast of Saturday Night Live's first seasons. All the Canadian members except Joe Flaherty who was from Pittsburgh joined SCTV in Toronto and all the US members except Ottawa's Dan Ackroyd joined SNL in New York. The third group from the Second City Troupe went on to create the National Lampoon movies, that's why you'll always see SNL and SCTV actors and writers crossover in 70s, 80s and 90s movies.
Yes, that's Rick Moranis, he was in Ghostbusters and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
And Spaceball
And the other is Dave Thomas, who isn't the guy who started Wendys.
@@the_peefster lol
@@mattdarrock666 Dark Helmet was brilliant. 🙂
@@the_peefster Dave Thomas = Brother of Canadian Musician Ian Thomas of "Painted Ladies" fame
We're able to laugh at ourselves. Forever amused.
You just burst with pride when watching Canadian Comedy.....we are the best at laughing at ourselves....Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canuks!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂💞💖
To you as well! 🍁
Right back at ya.
I was the stage manager for Dave Thomas' younger brother Ian's band who were featured in an episode of SCTV. Ian, an accomplished singer/songwriter/musician/author, was every bit as funny as his comedian brother. Filming took place in the ITV Studios in Edmonton, Alberta in one long day. Ian's band played live; unusual for the times. Ian already knew all the cast members through his brother and it was an absolute riot watching these guys go at each other. After filming the episode, the band was playing at a local dinner theatre and most of the cast came to see the show. The heckling back and forth was pure gold! During the break, John Candy, a mountain of a man, came into our dressing room and absolutely killed everyone with his jokes. A truly memorable time. And I got to see the Great White North set!
The boxes are cases of 24 Molson Canadian Beer , The Koo Koo kooo , is the theme song ...this was out long before Waynes World . Holy Lord jumpins this brings back memories lol
Those cases of beer would have been a dozen. 24's are more square.
@@bunzeebear2973 Yea , can see that now that I'm looking closer 👍
Don't forget, down home didn't have 2fours for years before Ontario did. Don't know if they even have them there yet, haven't been back in 40 years. Wow, time goes by.
Yep , true too . Guess I just automattically say 24's eh . Thanks bud :)
@@shannondawn44 also note the stubby bottles.
Yes, more Bob and Doug. Happy Thanksgiving!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
Same to you. 🍁
Rick Moranis plays Bob, and Dave Thomas plays Doug. It was their first comedy experience on TV in Canada. It was huge. From Toronto.
Happy thanksgiving 🦃🇨🇦!!! Bob and Doug are classics!! A good way to start off the 🇨🇦🦃!! Thank you Tyler!! 💕🙏🏻 I hope everyone has a wonderful beautiful day, here from AB it’s going to be 22 C yeah!! Doing the 🦃 at the campfire 👍🙏🏻💕
Happy Thanksgiving from a fellow Albertan!!
Have a great one. Happy Thanksgiving to you & everyone, from Ontario.
In Edmonton there is a statue of the MacKenzie Brothers on a bench near the Oilers rink. For a while SCTV filmed in Edmonton so it is a nice tribute to them.
Fun fact, The Great White North was totally improvised, no script. The topics were sometimes decided before hand but often they would just make it up once they started filming. They also did a feature film “Stage Brew” and there was also an animated series about Bob and Doug.
I think you meant to right ‘Strange Brew’ as the skit name.😂 Loved it!
Correction: Strange Brew
They needed filler because the canadian broadcast are longer then Americans
I recently introduced my 10 year old to "Strange Brew". I'm pretty sure its still sitting as a free movie on You tube.
Oh Tylor you just sent me back to being 12/13 years old and watching SCTV. Bob and Doug were a huge success. As someone has said you need to listen to them 0:26 sing the 12 Days of Christmas. They also had a very popular song called Take Off in which Geddy Lee from Rush also sings on the song. You definitely need to watch more of these and maybe find videos of their songs. I loved SCTV which by the way was not a real tv station in Canada it was fictional. And also, this was before Wayne’s World, I’d bet this was Mike Myer’s inspiration for Wayne’s World. Thanks for sending me back, loved it.
This Canadian gold never gets old.
Schools do hand out packs of smokes to the kids, eh.
Bob & Doug were from Elsinore, Ontario and they were so popular in Canada that they got their own movie in 1983 called Strange Brew.
"Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it." IMDB
SCTV was THE Canadian version of SNL for us 70's teenagers!
From American stereotypes. We have no problem laughing at ourselves 😅 This show ushered in a generation 😂
Beloved to the hearts of senior Canadians, SCTV was filmed at various locations in Canada between 76 and 81. Truths were told, beers were drunk and strange ideas were hatched. They had a hoser parade down Yonge St. in Toronto; and in '82, the mayor of LA declared Jan. 18th Bob & Doug MacKenzie Day. We miss 'em like we miss stubbies.
Long underwear, how do you squeeze into that? I damn near just about died right there, Tyler😂😂😂😂
ask your girlfriend
@@k1k2voyer do Americans not know what long johns are?
@@g8kpr3000 not sure, perhaps regional? Not sure where Tyler lives...
@@g8kpr3000 i was just quoting Tyler there he totakly cracked me up.
I remember you used to be able to get full long johns. They covered everything except hands, feet and head. They also included a rear flap for doing your "business"
I forgot how much I loved these guys. I need to watch the movie again.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, MY FELLOW HOSERS!! ❤ from Ontario!
To you also, from Ontario, too!!
Happy thanksgiving from Manitoba!
To you too from Nova Scotia😊
I think you should watch it in full, without pausing to get the full effect🇨🇦😊
Take off, eh...
yes my husband wears long underwear all winter long. sometimes wool. Canadian bacon is back bacon.
SCTV was a springboard for many Canadian actors trying to make a name for themselves. Eugene Levy, Cathrine O'hara, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis,, John Candy and Martin Short were a few of the more memorable alumni. You could do a reaction on every one of them and fill a 1/2 hours worth of content. Oh .... BTW.... Happy Thanksgiving Canadian style eh!
Happy Thanksgiving you Hosers!!
Striped coats - is a joke on Hudons Bay. Hudson Bay is both the name of a body of water and a chain of stores in Canada. And a 'trademark' of the store is white things with 3 colored stripes on them.
Four stripes, my guy... Red, blue, yellow, and green. The reference is probably to the blanket coats (capotes) that were emblematic of the fur-trade era. Those blankets have been a tradition for the HBC, for over three hundred years.
@@barefootanimist Thank you! I can see them in my minds eye, but for the life of me I couldn't remember exactly what they looked like.
I used to live next to the Humphries Woolen Mill in Moncton (Lewisville) New Brunswick and we watched the creek color every day when we walked to school, to see which color had been run the day before. Crazy eh? 1950s
They last forever and are very warm.
Still available for sale. Blankets, bed sheets, mittens, socks etc. Received a Hudson Bay email the other day about the Bay Stripe sale currently on.
SCTV was a weekly tv show that was about a fictional tv station it featured John Candy, Rick Moranis, and several other great Canadian comics, It was originally shot in Edmonton Alberta, and moved to Toronto in the early eighties. Yes they constantly mocked Americans. Count Floyd was another great part of the show. Love you Tyler
"The Great White North" was an SCTV skit that was created because the CTRC(Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) told them they needed at least 10 minutes of Canadian content. They jokingly created this Canadian stereotype skit of two beer drinking, cigarette smoking(Though later episodes got rid of the smokes because they didn't want to promote smoking) and back bacon eating, parka wearing Canadian brothers who suffer from sibling rivalry as a comedic Canadian protest and was supposed to be a filler for the Canadian content requirement, however the Canadian viewers absolutely loved it and wanted more of it and eventually gain legendary status among Canadians who grew up with them to this day. every once in a while you might hear someone singing "ku luk koo koo koo koo koo koo" up here in Canada . We even got excited a couple of years ago when Space X launched 2 astronauts into space with first names Bob and Doug Canadians pictured these two going into space, Yes you are right it is Rick Moranis from Ghostbusters and the guy on the right is Dave Thomas.
Also, the Mel Brooks comedy, Spaceballs, featuring Rick Moranis and John Candy from SCTV is Elon Musk's favourite movie.
And if anyone remembers a US sitcom called "Grace Under Fire", Dave Thomas played the part of Grace's next door neighbour .
I think it was 2 min
SCTV was a sketch comedy show, filmed (at first) in Edmonton Alberta. Alot of the original comedians from this show went on to become successful in Hollywood.
Bob & Doug became iconic in Canadian comedy, resulting a feature film called "Strange Brew", as well as a hilarious Christmas album with their take on Christmas songs. Their chaotic mess of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is still played on the radio every year, and it's glorious.
Comedy gold😂😂😂
I think they are why Americans think we talk like this
✌️🏵️💞
Exactly! 😅
Definitely is the reason lol
Must see!!!! Bob and Doug’s 12 days of Christmas.
He does the song in the beginning as an ode to the ‘Hinterland Who’s Who’. It’s his version of the HWW intro
The loon.
9:36 Tyler this is a- tongue - in - cheek poke at How canadians are stereotyped.
This was every guy in my high school.
Happy thanksgiving my fellow Canadians
Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving to you!
SCTV was scetch comedy ensemble that started in Edmonton and later moved to Toronto for the usual reasons. The entire group in Canada was Canadian and all went on to movie fame. The Mackenzie brothers put out a Christmas album that is hilarious and also made a movie called Strange Brew.
SCTV (Second City TV) had a troop out of Chicago as well that put out comedians such as Stephan Colbert amongst others.
Btw Tyler, the klu ku ku ku ku koo at the beginning of the skit was the theme song for the show. Sayings like “hoser” and “take off eh” were started from this show.
“Canadian” bacon is back bacon.
You referenced Wayne’s World here and I believe it was a bit of homage to Bob and Doug created by Mike Myers, another Canadian. Almost half of SNL’s cast until recent years has been made up of Canadians and we’re very proud of that fact.
I think when you live in our climate you have to have a sense of humour. And you’re welcome.
Total comedy on the stereotype and they ended up making a movie called Strange Brew. The opening 'song' was because the station manager Guy wouldn't give them money for a theme song so they sang their own. Funny, hilarious and a national treasure of comedy.
TYLER…The 12 days of Christmas by Bob and Doug McKenzie is an ALL TIME CLASSIC!!!
Good on yay for noticing Rick Moranis
This is just one of many skits on SCTV which was a rival to SNL during the late 70s and 80s that featured a lot of Canadians that went on to fame and fortune in the States.
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃🍁
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you!! To you as well!!
the main reason for the Bob and Doug set of skits was in part of Canadian content. what most people have forgotten is that in the US, they required 2 minutes additional commercial time than in the Canada. The cast was tasked to come up with 2 more minutes with definite Canadian content. Dave blurts out we should sit around, drink beer and say eh. the set was made, Rick and Dave sat down and cranked out a bunch of the 2 minute sets. they may have had some ideas but nothing was scripted.
SCTV ... was also known as Second City Television, which was a precursor to famous Saturday Night Live television show.
One of the all time great Canadian comedy shows.
There was/is a Second City comedy troupe in Chicago - that's where SNL came from; and there was/is a Second City comedy troupe in Toronto - that's where SCTV came from.
It filled in for SNL one summer on NBC
Lorne Michaels did sketch comedy in Toronto with Hart Pomerantz before he created SNL. They even had a TV show on CBC@@margaretjames6494
@@margaretjames6494The Canadian second city moved to Chicago in 1981.
@@margaretjames6494sctv started in Edmonton , after about 2 yrs , they then moved to Toronto
The boxes are stubby beer bottles of Molson Canadian
Happy Thanksgiving, so SCTV was a sketch comedy tv series, and its premise is as a fictional tv station, and some of the sketches (like Great White North) were shown multiple times, while others were only shown once. Yes, the guy on the left is Rick Moranis, from Ghostbusters, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, & The Flintstones, among others. The guy on the right is Dave Thomas, known for Kidz in the Wood, Stripes, and many tv guest appearances.
SCTV wasn't a channel, but a show on Canadian tv. it stood for Second City Television. It was a sketch comedy show, one of the best to ever exist :) It revolved around a fictional canadian tv station, SCTV, and it included the "shows" on the channel and the backstage happenings.
they even had a song played on the radio. it was called "Take Off" and Geddy Lee of RUSH sang it. so good
Bob and Doug were inspired by a couple of Edmontonians that the SCTV crew met in a bar in Edmonton. I saw SCTV filmed a lot when it was filmed in Edmonton. Thank you Dr. Alllard for starting ITV, that gave us 3 home town tv stations.
bob and doug united generations of canucks and are genius
I loved that show. I came to Canada from England at age 10 and that's what many Canadian guys were like in my view. My son won the contest at school on Bob and Doug Day. He had the green hat and the green coat and the green rubber boots. At 15, he entered the auditorium carrying an empty beer bottle and greeted the judges with a "How's it goin, eh?" I had told him he had everything for the contest that he needed. It was back in the closet somewhere. And he did, and he put it in his gym bag and put it all on for the afternoon contest. It was fun. Although I didn't like the beer bottle the judges didn't care. Talented comedians of the day, those two guys.
This was way before Wayne's World and the premise was to play up American stereotypes about Canadians. Loved this as a teenager. I had a "Take Off Hoser" t-shirt and I learned how to say "Eh" watching Bob & Doug. It wasn't part of our vocabulary here in Newfoundland before this
Bob and Doug were before Wayne's World. Keep in mind Mike Myers (wayne) is also Canadian and probably watched this before his sketch. Wayne's World was 1988 and B&D was 1980. SCTV wasn't a channel, it was just the name of a sketch show similar to Saturday Night Live. Lorne Michaels, the guy who created saturday night live is also Canadian, and wrote and produced sketch comedy on Canadian tv before moving onto Laugh In and SNL in the usa.
Need to watch Canadian comedy Wayne & Shuster's "Shakespear Baseball sketch"
Is that the one where they were drinking tea and Johnny Wayne takes a sip, looks at the camera, and says "Only in Canada... Pity"
Only in Canada was Red Rose Tea's shtick back then.
1. we have bacon. 2. what Americans call "Canadian bacon" is sometimes called "back bacon". Its regional. 3. Long underwear was a staple of Canadian winter attire until high tech low weight winter wear became common. Even on the west coast of Canada where I grew up, and we seldom get snow, we would wear long underwear on really cold days, usually under jeans. 4. PLEASE listen to the 12 Days of Christmas (as sung by Bob and Doug) and Take off (Bob, Doug and Geddy Lee from Rush).
The CRTC demanded that SCTV have exclusive Canadian content, this was SCTV's response. They also made a movie, its actually quite funny.
Not quite. The show already met CanCon regulations. The Great White North was a middle finger to the CBC which began airing the show but they run fewer commercials, so each episode was 2 minutes short. The CBC asked for additional material, which had to be "Canadian" in some way.
@@exile220ify I stand corrected
@@notloz2 Yeah, eh.
These guys are iconic - yes, over the top - but not far off every family get together I've been to.
Bob and Doug MacKenzie were a regular skit on SCTV which was a popular Canadian sketch show in the 70s. It featured the cast members which are some of Canada's best: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara and others. You should check it out.
Loved these two for sure growing up. Howz it goin' EH? You hoser!!
Pork knowledge for Tyler
back bacon (Canada) = Canadian bacon (USA) ... comes from the back of a pig
bacon (same in both countries) - from the belly of a pig
ham - comes from the top of the rear legs of a pig
Proper name is Peameal Bacon
Oddly enough, back bacon is not that common in Canada (at least these days). Most of it is exported to the US, where it's sold as "Canadian Bacon." It is like when we visited my wife's family in Wales. Wales was overrun with sheep, but most of the lamb they bought in Wales came from New Zealand, because most of the Welsh lamb was exported to France (at least that's how it was at the time of our visit; that may have changed with Brexit).
@@mrbaddog4749 Not quite, Back Bacon is rolled in Peameal to make Peameal bacon.
Hello from the Maritimes!!! Love your content!
Happy Thanksgiving Canucks! Enjoying back bacon and beer for breakfast, EH! Ask any Canuck of a certain vintage we will sing that opening song.
Rick Moranis on the left was in "Ghost Busters" and "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" among many movie appearances. Dave Thomas on the right was in "Stripes".
People have explained the SCTV origins. The sketch show SCTV, next went to NBC and aired Friday nights. Martin Short joined the cast on NBC. He was the only person who was on both SCTV and Saturday Night Live. It was through the NBC version of SCTV that many of the actors became known and, like many who started on Saturday Night, got movie offers.
There was a period where many of the Canadian comedy actors were apparing in movies. Dan Ackroyd, Mike Myers, Martin Short, and John Candy most prominently but as you mentioned, Rick Moranis (Ghost Busters, Honey I Shrunk...). Catherine O'Hare (Beetlegeuse)
Recently Catherine O'Hare and Eugene Levy starred in a very successful comedy called Schitt's Creek.
@@jayarr961 Tony Rosato and Robin Duke also went to SNL
As most Canadian shows, Schitt's Creek didn't make it big until it was cancelled.
The only Canadian show I can think of that's still running and shown in a lot of other countries is Murdoch Mysteries.
3:13 Hudson's Bay Company famously sold white winter coats with multi coloured stripes. Along with about 200 other household items with the same motif.
9:20 People from Ontario living between Kingston and Ottawa have these accents. Lots of 'Eh', 'Right' and 'aboot'.
11:40 The CRTC is Canada's equivalent to the FCC in the U.S.A. The CRTC famously made it illegal to have too much foreign content in their Radio and TV programs. This IS the reason Canadian Corner (Great White North) was created, SCTV was a show written and performed by mostly U.S.A.ers, but produced and broadcast in Canada. The CRTC mandated more Canadian Content must be added. So Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis created the MOST CANADIAN CONTENT they could think of as a sarcastic jab at the CRTC. It became SCTV's most famous characters. (This Rule by CRTC is also why the Howard Stern show was taken off the air in Montreal and Toronto, 4 hours with no Canadian Content every weekday, the CHOM and Q107 Radio Stations received fines by the CRTC, the show was removed to save these fines, although the excuse was given it was removed due to content complaints by listeners.)
Bob and Doug Mckenzie, eh, was a hilarious show that poked fun at Canadian stereotypes. The striped jackets they refer to are the jackets the Hudson Bay company used to sell. They might still have the striped blankets. FYI, Wayne's World, and Mike Myers is Canadian, probably why the humour is the same. The McKenzies predates Wayne's World. The stuff that came at the end of the "earmuff" video was part of the skit. It was full of a lot of Canadian-isms. Lot of tongue in cheek humour with a lot of poking fun at ourselves. I recommend looking up their version of the 12 days of Christmas. Very funny.
Mike Myers created the Wayne character as a “bit” to do at parties to impress girls. “Wayne” was a stereotypical Canadian guy, loved hockey and beer, and was cut from the same cloth as classic Canadiana hosers like Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas).
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🥧
I hope you are enjoying this paid holiday off with your families. 😊
(one of 12 we have in Canada...it's the law ) 🇨🇦
🤣 I am literally at work right now on a break
Oh fuck yeah bud, I've been waiting for this one
Happy Thanksgiving
To you, also!! Thank you!
I haven't seen Bob & Doug for years. LMAO. My brothers would: coo, oooh coo coo coo ooooc coo cooooo... while skiing down the mountain. I knew it was them from a 'run' away. What a hoot. 😊