Another of Andrea Martin's astounding impersonations. Those of us who grew up with Alice can recognize the brilliance of this parody of Linda Lavin's singing style. Short as Jamie Farr and Levy as Lorne Green were also spot on. "Sweeps Week" is one of the best episodes of Network 90 with a brilliant wraparound.
Agree. If you were around at this time, you get how brilliant everyone here is. The Lavin stuff is spot on. Short as Farr, Joe Flaherty as Gavin MacLeod. And John Candy as football player turned actor Merlin Olsen, sitting at the feet of Lorne Green (Eugene Levy) as if he's in the league of Brando- so goddamned funny. This kind of humor no longer exists.
I wish SCTV was being shown in re runs somewhere, hello me tv and antenna tv, , by the way according to both Polly Holliday and Diane Ladd who worked with her on Alice this take on her pretty much hits the mark
I'm from Chicago. Does anyone remember around the years of 1984, SCTV came on, I think at midnight or one am on Friday or Saturday nights. Back then that was considered the graveyard shift for a television program. I remember it being viewed by critics as a second rate Saturday Night Live type show. Back then I was too young to really appreciate their brilliance, but they were just as good as Saturday Night Live, if not better in some aspects. I'm so glad I can actually watch it again, through the Internet. Andrea Martin did some funkin' fantastic, hilarious impersonations!
It was around '88, when the show was in syndication weekdays out here (PNW), that I really got to pay attention to it. In '84 I was still a bit young to be up during the small hours. :)
I was in college by then (1984) and lived for the weekend late night hour when this was on U.S. network TV - was it after SNL on NBC? I had been watching it since it arrived in Philadelphia on our old channel 48 some time in the late '70s. I loved parody since I was a little kid and this was the best parody television available to satisfy my taste! And Andrea Martin embodied some of the best characters on SCTV. Saturday Night Live seemed to me to be very weak at getting the details down, especially in their early years.
40 years later and a childhood away and this is STILL FUNNY AS HELL. Gawd Bless Andrea Martin. She had Lavin's card. Anybody that watched Alice faithfully and remembers the Flo beef knows this is THE TRUTH.
I don't even see Andrea Martin anymore: I'm seeing Linda Lavin. That's how good Andrea is at her craft. Lavin really did "SCHMALTZ" up that opening for "Alice"
I've always thought Linda was a hammy singer, and apparently I'm not alone. I can't listen to the opening of Alice without cringing. Especially after the first season, when she started to really overdue it.
One of my high school friends would joke that each new season of her show the theme song would be sung differently, as she would attempt to sing it "with a little more feeeeeling." It was like she was trying to tell us she was more than just Alice on TV!
@@someguy23475 You're just jealous because you obviously can't sing. Linda Lavin can f****** sing. Why do you think she has had quite so many albums and everything. Let's see you try to crank out a billion bucks out of your ass
I thought she would have done the theme song to Alice, the show she starred in. Early to rise, early to bed, in between I cooked and cleaned and went out of my head.
She's coming out with a new show on CBS, kind of a sequel to "Alice". The theme song will be "There's an Old Girl in Town" as she sings the opening line.
I loved this show. I often wonder how Linda Lavin felt about this -- I mean they really put her through the grinder on this one. Since most comedy shows didn't do Linda Lavin parodies, she probably chose to just ignore this particular skit, hoping others would never see it.
I hope she loathed it. She was an insecure jerk. Lavin, like a child, couldn't tolerate Polly Holliday becoming popular as the Flo character so she had the woman removed from the series. Wow. Yes, Polly got her own sitcom but it bombed so fast.
“Someone in the *orchestra* was flat …” 😅 “I’ve spent my life as a singer. Singing is what I do best.” 😂 “I am a professionally trained singer. People are coming here tonight to hear me sing.” 🤣
Within many of these comments are what us tweens said and laughed about years ago. That Lavin thinks she can sing more than she can, the obnoxious ending of the song, the lounge singer aspect. Hilarious that so many others thought the same things.
That incredibly annoying passive-aggressive way of smiling when you're chewing someone out... only Andrea Martin would be brilliant enough to see it in Linda Lavin.
The bit with Andrea Martin as Linda Lavin has always struck me as rather "inside," as if one or more of the people who worked on SCTV had a bad experience with Lavin.
OMG @4:01- Somebody decided to go 'all-in' on Linda Lavin and commit full on character-assasination. There may be some truth to Linda having control issues but wow!
Andrea Martin is brilliant. Thank you.
Linda Lavin schmaltzing up the Alice opening must be muzak in hell. She sounded like a hammy lounge singer who was very impressed with herself
Joe Flaherty as a bewildered Gavin Macleod may be the funniest impression in comedy history!!
Only SCTV would have the wit to skewer Linda Lavin.
And Gavin MacLeod! I mean come ON!! "Yes, everyone is talking to me."
I've seen this 100 times and it still cracks me up. SNL wishes they were half this funny
Another of Andrea Martin's astounding impersonations. Those of us who grew up with Alice can recognize the brilliance of this parody of Linda Lavin's singing style. Short as Jamie Farr and Levy as Lorne Green were also spot on. "Sweeps Week" is one of the best episodes of Network 90 with a brilliant wraparound.
Agree. If you were around at this time, you get how brilliant everyone here is. The Lavin stuff is spot on. Short as Farr, Joe Flaherty as Gavin MacLeod. And John Candy as football player turned actor Merlin Olsen, sitting at the feet of Lorne Green (Eugene Levy) as if he's in the league of Brando- so goddamned funny. This kind of humor no longer exists.
I wish SCTV was being shown in re runs somewhere, hello me tv and antenna tv, , by the way according to both Polly Holliday and Diane Ladd who worked with her on Alice this take on her pretty much hits the mark
I won't be happy until SCTV gets the views it deserves...in the millions.
Andrea Martin--- hysterical!
I'm from Chicago. Does anyone remember around the years of 1984, SCTV came on, I think at midnight or one am on Friday or Saturday nights. Back then that was considered the graveyard shift for a television program. I remember it being viewed by critics as a second rate Saturday Night Live type show. Back then I was too young to really appreciate their brilliance, but they were just as good as Saturday Night Live, if not better in some aspects. I'm so glad I can actually watch it again, through the Internet. Andrea Martin did some funkin' fantastic, hilarious impersonations!
It was around '88, when the show was in syndication weekdays out here (PNW), that I really got to pay attention to it. In '84 I was still a bit young to be up during the small hours. :)
I was in college by then (1984) and lived for the weekend late night hour when this was on U.S. network TV - was it after SNL on NBC? I had been watching it since it arrived in Philadelphia on our old channel 48 some time in the late '70s. I loved parody since I was a little kid and this was the best parody television available to satisfy my taste! And Andrea Martin embodied some of the best characters on SCTV. Saturday Night Live seemed to me to be very weak at getting the details down, especially in their early years.
40 years later and a childhood away and this is STILL FUNNY AS HELL. Gawd Bless Andrea Martin. She had Lavin's card. Anybody that watched Alice faithfully and remembers the Flo beef knows this is THE TRUTH.
I don't even see Andrea Martin anymore: I'm seeing Linda Lavin. That's how good Andrea is at her craft. Lavin really did "SCHMALTZ" up that opening for "Alice"
One of Andrea Martin's best impressions on a technical level - she sounds just like Linda Lavin!
OMG I can't believe you said that! Only this show dared to point out that the Network Cash Cows had no talent.
This entire thing is hilarious.
OMG. I love these people! This is brilliant!!
Love that Jamie Farr impersonation.
Do you laugh at his jokes?
@@ModMokkaMatti yep.
Make sure you don't shoot my hands... when I'm faking it ...
Andrea as Linda Lavin.....hilarious!!!!!!!
Priceless.
Savage! l love it....
"I guess she told you to eat her grits"...now that was funny!...
The end of Lavin’s “I Love You Porgy” has me on the floor.
4:55 Then it's your funeral! LOL!!!
I've always thought Linda was a hammy singer, and apparently I'm not alone. I can't listen to the opening of Alice without cringing. Especially after the first season, when she started to really overdue it.
Lavin can’t sing.
I like her singing, and I still find this hilarious. (Same with a lot of SCTV's targets, like Alan Alda.)
One of my high school friends would joke that each new season of her show the theme song would be sung differently, as she would attempt to sing it "with a little more feeeeeling." It was like she was trying to tell us she was more than just Alice on TV!
@@someguy23475 You're just jealous because you obviously can't sing. Linda Lavin can f****** sing. Why do you think she has had quite so many albums and everything. Let's see you try to crank out a billion bucks out of your ass
No I can’t sing. Look at all of the pop singers who made millions even though they couldn’t carry a tune. Studios can do that you know.
make-up artist made levy look just like greene...amazing...
Check out Levy as Ernest Borgnine
I thought she would have done the theme song to Alice, the show she starred in. Early to rise, early to bed, in between I cooked and cleaned and went out of my head.
She's coming out with a new show on CBS, kind of a sequel to "Alice". The theme song will be "There's an Old Girl in Town" as she sings the opening line.
I think they decided to make it an extra cringeworthy parody by having Lavin sing a song that was supposed to be sung by a black woman.
@@thelobsterjesus Possibly.
I loved this show. I often wonder how Linda Lavin felt about this -- I mean they really put her through the grinder on this one. Since most comedy shows didn't do Linda Lavin parodies, she probably chose to just ignore this particular skit, hoping others would never see it.
I would guess that Lavin didn't like this parody. She took herself very seriously.
I hope she loathed it. She was an insecure jerk. Lavin, like a child, couldn't tolerate Polly Holliday becoming popular as the Flo character so she had the woman removed from the series. Wow. Yes, Polly got her own sitcom but it bombed so fast.
1:10 My soul left my body in a fit of laughter.
Brilliant !!!!!!!!!
Ed Grimley, Mayor of Nerdville.
“Someone in the *orchestra* was flat …” 😅
“I’ve spent my life as a singer. Singing is what I do best.” 😂
“I am a professionally trained singer. People are coming here tonight to hear me sing.” 🤣
Within many of these comments are what us tweens said and laughed about years ago. That Lavin thinks she can sing more than she can, the obnoxious ending of the song, the lounge singer aspect. Hilarious that so many others thought the same things.
I hated when Alice Hyat Sung
Buump baa bump baa BAAAA !!!!
"I'm one lucky guy."
"Yes, we know."
That incredibly annoying passive-aggressive way of smiling when you're chewing someone out... only Andrea Martin would be brilliant enough to see it in Linda Lavin.
The bit with Andrea Martin as Linda Lavin has always struck me as rather "inside," as if one or more of the people who worked on SCTV had a bad experience with Lavin.
Anyone who heard the Theme from Alice can relate
Someone wanted to have a 'go at her' and this was brutally funny
OMG @4:01- Somebody decided to go 'all-in' on Linda Lavin and commit full on character-assasination. There may be some truth to Linda having control issues but wow!
Take me now...God!!! Lo!
@Paulgr ...Cabillero;.."Live From Edmonton...its Thursday Night!"
Scene right after the clip ended was also a hoot, Farr/Short made big mistake of smooching some macho guy on stage...lol
Said 'macho guy' is Merlin Olsen.
@@Neville60001 After knocking "Shfarrt" floor for that, he could have handed him an FTD "Pick-Me-Up Bouquet".
John Candy @ 3:37 ?
Yes, as Merlin Olsen...
@@2packs4sure When actors are on stage, do they really need to be so loud? LOL.
Hilarious
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌
In Linda's defense, the orchestra sucked as bad or worse than she did,,,,,,, AND,,,,,,,,,,, awesomely... :)
LMAO
One Mainer doing another Mainer.