Worked on a film with Martin Short many a moon ago. What a great sweet person, who was perfectly willing to spend same amount of time with the crew members as the cast members/not a trace of the kind of, um, "above it all" that can happen on sets. Wonderful memories...and boy, what talent!
@@SeattleSurlyMike and two of them even went to the same high school and the University up the road from the high school... Dave Thomas was also from Hamilton Ontario - same neighbourhood.
Right! It's called, "ensemble performance". John Belushi brought that up in an interview, after the original SNL cast had left and the new one was working. He trashed it and "Fridays" saying it was all "California humor. Everybody's out for himself."
Nick Slomka which is **in Hamilton,** Ontario so *actually* the original comment was indeed correct. Had you said ‘at Hamilton’ you would have been right with your correction, but it did not.
The SCTV guys are so good at this stuff. It's like a weird alt-comedy take on old showbiz, which doesn't exist anymore which makes it that much more absurd. God, Jiminy Glick is so good.
@@lt4324 I actually DO know who he is and still see him make many guest spots on other shows. Even though he was in full makeup and prosthetics, I bow to your superiority at instantly recognizing him. Quite a feat and enough for you to LYFAO, apparently. ...It seems you really need to feel better than others, so go for it.
This was a take of when on Sctv, Bob hope would interrupt the Sammy maudlin show when Eugene levy played the bobby Birman character if anyone got that.
Speaking of SCTV, I love and miss John Candy so much. Can you imagine if he had lived, if for no other reason than to be interviewed by Jiminy? Of course there are a million more reasons for the sweet big guy to have lived, but speaking comically, I can't imagine anything funnier.
This was so brilliant because it reminds me of the skit from the old SCTV series where a younger Bob Hope interrupts Eugene Levy (playing his nightclub comic Bobby Bittman's) stage act on the Sammy Maudlin Show. Listen to the music they play when Hope enters. They obviously didn't want to pay the royalties for ":Thanks for the memories" ... Bob Hope's theme song... so they changed enough notes to make it a different song.
"Where do Canadians go when they want to get away? Do they just go to the border, and look and peer and wish?!!" The Bob Hope cameo was a great joy. What a surprise!
Dave Thomas kills it as Bob Hope! "He was ddooinn sumthin to the pie." 'I dont know where I fit into this world anymore." HAHAHAHA! Thanks for posting! I have a few of these clips on VHS tapes in my closet still :)
Eugene Levy has always been what Harold Ramis was, a fantastic middleman character that brings some sanity to the scene to make the other appear more ridiculous
He has much broader range than that. He's also totally capable of being the absurd one. Often he'd dominate the scene playing outrageous characters like Woody Tobias Jr or Earl Camembert. He can do it all.
The true genius is playing it so perfectly that the straight man becomes compelling and hilarious in their own right without pulling focus. This is John Cleese's big gift too. This dignifies the comic caricatures by making normality look ridiculous, and the sketch becomes a satire rather than just a vehicle for a schtick. Eugene Levy is a rare kind of talent.
Jesus... it doesn't get better then this.....its a perfect show...all around....from the acting to the editing....to the presentation......just perfect
It’s hilarious that “Bob Hope” (Dave Thomas) interrupted Eugene Levy on this mock talk show, because on SCTV, he used to interrupt Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy) on the Sammy Maudlin Show! The reason “Hope” gives both times is that he was working on a special next door and thought he’d drop in (ruining Bittman’s act!). _So_ funny!!
Dave Thomas, doing the best Bob Hope ever- See SCTV's Classic " Play It Again Bob" sketch, with Rick Moranis doing a spot on Woody Allen-brilliant satire.
I absolutely could not agree more! Oh man, when I was in jr. and high school, from 79-83, I recall watching SCTV at 1 in the morning on many a Friday night(or Saturday morning, as it were) What a great nightcap after a night of partying, but I was one of the very few people i knew who was into the show. "Too hip for the room" is how some stand-ups put that unique feeling of having a special intellect and sense of humor. Ive since put many people onto SCTV, and indeed, Martin Short, etc., :)
I spent an afternoon during a vacation in a matinee of that movie, was trying to get my next radio job and the best thing done was taking those two in, with a young Meg Ryan in the cast! Would have thought it'd carry better than a 5.7 on IMDb.
@Speegs23 It's Dave Thomas as Bob Hope. All three of these guys worked together on Second City TV show (Canadian). Dave always did a younger Bob Hope but for this interview he did one that was in keeping with Bob's actual age at the time of the show.
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Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas, three legends
Had no idea that Dave Thomas
That was a spectacular Bob Hope
Eugene Levy knows exactly what to do in a case like this. The guest plays it straight. He's such a pro.
Thomas got him to crack just a bit with the "things have changed" line ... that was fun to see.
Too bad they couldn’t have afforded Bobby Bitman
So you've never seen SCTV and dont know that these guys all know each other and this was scripted?
So you've never seen SCTV and dont know that these guys all know each other and this was scripted?
@@RUclips-tied of course Levy knew it was comedy. But things like this are not as scripted as you think. Much of it is improvised
Glick saying: "Tom Hanks couldn't get anybody to work with him in Castaway" and watching Levy react to that in real time is genius.
Stop using the word genius so liberally.
Levy selflessly playing the straight man phenomenally well. This was a real buzz for a middle-aged Canadian like myself.
👏👏
Eugene Levy is master of the understatement
Worked on a film with Martin Short many a moon ago. What a great sweet person, who was perfectly willing to spend same amount of time with the crew members as the cast members/not a trace of the kind of, um, "above it all" that can happen on sets. Wonderful memories...and boy, what talent!
SCTV was so underrated and so much funnier than SNL. Short, Candy, Levy, Moranis, O’Hara and on and on. Comedic genius!
Andrea martin
Dave Thomas.
Really good stuff
The Convert-a-Toupe skit is still hilarious. I almost died the first time I saw that🤣
Two Amazing Canadian Actors 🇨🇦🤙🏼💥💯
Three!
@@SeattleSurlyMike and two of them even went to the same high school and the University up the road from the high school... Dave Thomas was also from Hamilton Ontario - same neighbourhood.
Canada has so many good comedians, it's crazy.
Eugene Levy plays a great straight man. So professional.
+blakkat41 He was hilarious in Bringing Down the House.
Big time. He played along to perfection.
I agree, but it would also be amazing to see Jiminy interview Bobby Bittman.
Right! It's called, "ensemble performance". John Belushi brought that up in an interview, after the original SNL cast had left and the new one was working. He trashed it and "Fridays" saying it was all "California humor. Everybody's out for himself."
@@findlesplurb Bobby Bittman would lose his temper and storm off the set after a single minute of Glick.
I wish they would've done another segment with these guys. This was hilarious. Dave Thomas really nailed old Bob Hope.
Gabe Kaplan.....that's who I was hoping you would be.....
I still remember seeing these two - with Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas and John Candy and the rest - at SCTV in Toronto back in the day. Magical.
I remember the classic "Leave it To Beaver" episode.
3 buddies who go back all the way to college in Hamilton. Amazing.
Actually mcmaster university
Hamilton heroes!!
Omg it‘s Dave Thomas too!!!
I'm in Hamilton right now, wish me luck! #BreakALeg
Nick Slomka which is **in Hamilton,** Ontario so *actually* the original comment was indeed correct. Had you said ‘at Hamilton’ you would have been right with your correction, but it did not.
'You're Canadian. Has that been a burden ?' lol
This segment is such a perfect shambles. Pure genius. Good sport, Eugene.
just like Schitt's Creek. except it's not perfect
The SCTV guys are so good at this stuff. It's like a weird alt-comedy take on old showbiz, which doesn't exist anymore which makes it that much more absurd. God, Jiminy Glick is so good.
Exactly. The out of date references that I have to google only make me LOL harder
Yes, thanks for the memories SCTV.
This is what SCTV had over topical sketch comedy shows like SNL-characters
Meta comedy with a time machine element.
good point-norm macdonald did his thing in that way sometimes-doing rodney D. bits and imitating old actors and speaking styles. another canuck.
"..go down to the boarder and peer and hope and wish.." LOL
He said recently on the Conan o brien podcast that he never thought he would make it to America when he was young, so it’s coming from a real place.
Trevor Wright it’s more than what us Aussies could hope to do!
@@IDontTalkToCops You can look in the ocean.
Geez, now this really makes me miss SCTV. So cool to see a few of them together here. Dave Thomas as Bob Hope is classic!
Man, that dude is killing on the Hope! He looks and sounds exactly like the real thing - I had to stop and think if it was him!
Literally the best Bob Hope impression ever. Does him as an old man is amazing.
What the hell is an SCTV?
Dileep Menon I got SCTV from a scandavian girl at my cousins high school graduation party
Second City T. V. program. A fun show to view. I always enjoyed when more than one television was thrown from the windows.
Every interview is hysterical and this is one of my favorites!!!
Martin Shot, Dave Thomas, and Eugene Levy. It's like an SCTV reunion!
OMG, I couldn't figure out who in the heck was playing Bob Hope. Thanks!
@@zethraelofteldrassil3149 Me too!
Great memories
@@shinigami146 then neither of you know who Dave Thomas even is, he was easily recognizable as soon as he was on stage, LMFAO
@@lt4324 I actually DO know who he is and still see him make many guest spots on other shows. Even though he was in full makeup and prosthetics, I bow to your superiority at instantly recognizing him. Quite a feat and enough for you to LYFAO, apparently. ...It seems you really need to feel better than others, so go for it.
Levy played along so subtly. Really a masterful interaction. I've never seen anyone be able to control themselves with Jiminy so well.
Eugene is cracking up for real when Dave Thomas (bob hope) is on. lol
Tom Hanks couldn’t get anyone to work with him on Cast Away! Hahahaha
This was a take of when on Sctv, Bob hope would interrupt the Sammy maudlin show when Eugene levy played the bobby Birman character if anyone got that.
I did! But these two improvising is pure Magic!
That and Hope himself used to do that on talk shows. That's why they had him do that on Maudlin.
Thomas doing elderly Hope is impressive.
Bobby Bittman
SCTV would do all these hoary cheeseball showbiz talk show guest types. But Thomas would just straight up do Hope. I
Roy Holland how are yaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!???
A 20-kiloton bomb in my honour.... genius. Took me a second to recognize Dave Thomas
Bob Hope said Dave Thomas did the best impersonation of him. These are three great comics from SCTV!!
SCTV had sooo much talent.
and, truth be told, cocaine
That was AWESOME!!! Jiminy Glick is my favourite obnoxious interviewer in the world! And Gene and Dave - brilliant, the pair of them!
Three hugely talented comedians who just happen to be Canadian: Martin Short, Eugene Levy, and Dave Thomas.
Dont forget John Candy
@@ukmedicfrcs John Candy was in this sketch?
@@Roof_Pizza No he was Canadian.
All from Hamilton, Ontario.
Dave Thomas? The wendys hamburger was a funny invention to be sure.
Speaking of SCTV, I love and miss John Candy so much. Can you imagine if he had lived, if for no other reason than to be interviewed by Jiminy? Of course there are a million more reasons for the sweet big guy to have lived, but speaking comically, I can't imagine anything funnier.
I would love for John Candy to have answered Jiminy Glick as Orson Welles: “ From the depths of your ignorance, what do you mean, sir?”
I would love for John Candy to have answered Jiminy Glick as Orson Welles: “ From the depths of your ignorance, what do you mean, sir?”
Michael McKean as the harpist/bandleader, also in Best in Show.
Adrian Van Vorhees
I thought that was him. Lol. Great comedic line up here. I keep waiting for John Candy and/or Joe Flaherty to pop up, like the good ol days of sctv.
This was so brilliant because it reminds me of the skit from the old SCTV series where a younger Bob Hope interrupts Eugene Levy (playing his nightclub comic Bobby Bittman's) stage act on the Sammy Maudlin Show. Listen to the music they play when Hope enters. They obviously didn't want to pay the royalties for ":Thanks for the memories" ... Bob Hope's theme song... so they changed enough notes to make it a different song.
You're analysis is insightful, informed, and right-on.
My compliments.
This had to be one of Jiminy Glick's best interviews. Coming from SCTV, Levy knew exactly how to play this. PS - The "Canadian stuff" was hilarious.
"Gabe Kaplan! From Welcome Back Kotter, that's who I was hoping you'd be." Hahahaha
"Where do Canadians go when they want to get away? Do they just go to the border, and look and peer and wish?!!"
The Bob Hope cameo was a great joy. What a surprise!
Oh shit, here I am again on a Jiminy Glick binge.
Who needs a "Glick Fix? ", as sidekick Adrien Van Vorrhees (Michael McKean) says.
Dave Thomas kills it as Bob Hope! "He was ddooinn sumthin to the pie." 'I dont know where I fit into this world anymore." HAHAHAHA! Thanks for posting! I have a few of these clips on VHS tapes in my closet still :)
Oh and dumb old me thinking it was the real Bob Hope haha
@@Chadner Could have fooled me too haha
"There was a kid and he was d-dewring sumthin with a pie" This whole bit had me howling back then and still does. Thanks for posting!
and i walked in on my son... and he was watching tv. eeh..... THINGS HAVE CHANGED ...... i dont know how i fit in in this world anymore
So many great memories watching SCTV when I was a kid. These guys are awesome, timeless comedy
"You're not exaclty who I assumed you'd be..." Genius
Three all time greats ❤😂
Love these guys. And The Kids in the Hall. Why ya so dang funny ya Kanucks?
The Bob Hope impression was really good.
🤣🤣🥲💀💀💀 “Play It Again, Bob” was my absolute fav SCTV sketch ever!!
"Mooood ring? What is this, 1968?"
Excellent just excellent.
I thought Levy was gonna burst into his Bobby Bitman routine! Fantastic, I love these guys.
Rip and tear, Bruno, rip and tear.
3D House of Stewardesses.
I have every SCTV show.
as broadcast on Count Floyd's ''Monster Chiller Horror Theater"....."It's gonna be SCARY, Kids....REAL Scary !!"
Eugene Levy has always been what Harold Ramis was, a fantastic middleman character that brings some sanity to the scene to make the other appear more ridiculous
He has much broader range than that. He's also totally capable of being the absurd one. Often he'd dominate the scene playing outrageous characters like Woody Tobias Jr or Earl Camembert. He can do it all.
@@WalterLiddy I never said he was only a middleman lol. Stick with the scene at hand
As far as comic actors go, Harold Ramis was a fine director.
The true genius is playing it so perfectly that the straight man becomes compelling and hilarious in their own right without pulling focus. This is John Cleese's big gift too. This dignifies the comic caricatures by making normality look ridiculous, and the sketch becomes a satire rather than just a vehicle for a schtick. Eugene Levy is a rare kind of talent.
Good show, bon souvenir .... see you....glick.... oui make me happy and laufghing à lot ,merci encore de bruno dans sa cabane au canada...
Jesus... it doesn't get better then this.....its a perfect show...all around....from the acting to the editing....to the presentation......just perfect
Canadian Masters. Thanks for the memories!
Canadian Comedy Legends.
Wow...SCTV reunion..such amazing folks..
Not just three hilarious pros, but also the makeup here is amazing.
It’s hilarious that “Bob Hope” (Dave Thomas) interrupted Eugene Levy on this mock talk show, because on SCTV, he used to interrupt Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy) on the Sammy Maudlin Show! The reason “Hope” gives both times is that he was working on a special next door and thought he’d drop in (ruining Bittman’s act!). _So_ funny!!
Which is what the real Bob Hope did to Johnny Carson, who had to pretend he was delighted to see him come on and ruin the flow.
Dave Thomas, doing the best Bob Hope ever- See SCTV's Classic " Play It Again Bob" sketch, with Rick Moranis doing a spot on Woody Allen-brilliant satire.
I love it. A mini SCTV reunion. Fantastic. 👍👍👍
This is like SCTV.
I'm only in my 40's and i feel like i don't fit in this world.
Yeah. You've been cool.
Thank the liberals.
"Hey how are you cats?"
BEST Bob Hope ever!!!
"So many Jewish people have to reconsider at some point ..." dead
I had no idea Bob lived to be a 100!
That’s awesome
according to Groucho Marx's son, who wrote a bio of Bob Hope, Hope took 3 yrs off his age when he started in show biz, so he actually reached 103 !
@@essessessesq interesting
love seeing Dave Thomas, Levy, and Martin Short together. SCTV Reunion
I absolutely could not agree more! Oh man, when I was in jr. and high school, from 79-83, I recall watching SCTV at 1 in the morning on many a Friday night(or Saturday morning, as it were) What a great nightcap after a night of partying, but I was one of the very few people i knew who was into the show. "Too hip for the room" is how some stand-ups put that unique feeling of having a special intellect and sense of humor. Ive since put many people onto SCTV, and indeed, Martin Short, etc., :)
Then those wacky Canadians came out with Kids in the Hall. Super funny as well.
Three legends from Hamilton, Ontario.
All the times bob hope interrupted eugene levys characters haha
I loved Eugene Levy and John Candy in Armed and Dangerous 😂😂😂
I spent an afternoon during a vacation in a matinee of that movie, was trying to get my next radio job and the best thing done was taking those two in, with a young Meg Ryan in the cast! Would have thought it'd carry better than a 5.7 on IMDb.
@@JohnSmith-op1tcthat sucks because that movie is hilarious
This is great - and the Dave Thomas cameo puts it over the top.
Every Glick video is gold.
Shitt's Creek great show.
Three Hamilton Ontario boys!!
Seriously this 1 is just tops . Keep replaying
The Canadian bashing is even better because Martin Short is the official representative for Canada at the EPCOT center.
I remember seeing this on comedy central. The only difference was this was the best quality available for the time.
Wow this was uploaded on the same day as the great Japanese earthquake and Tsunami.
Martin short - there's no one line him!!! The best!!!!
Mr Hope what brings you to our stage in a surprised kind of way is such an underrated line
Wow. Dave Thomas...amazing.
"Hey, how are you cats?"
So much comedic talent under one roof
Bob Hope, that was classic. He just walked in out of the blue.
I loved SCTV. This is so fun
Good to see norm doing his bob hope impression, it's better than I thought
I love this SCTV reunion by the way
Still giggling over the tracking bars.......that takes me back.......!
great to see three together again
IM SUCH A FAN !!!!! hahaha i love that line
The fact that the tracking had to be adjusted at the start of the clip took me right back to 1985.
20.kiliton bomb in my honor! Lol
“You’re Canadian, has that been a burden? And do I need to speak slower?”
No one but Dave Thomas could do an impersonation of Bob Hope. Bob Hope was impressed by Dave Thomas.
@Speegs23 It's Dave Thomas as Bob Hope. All three of these guys worked together on Second City TV show (Canadian). Dave always did a younger Bob Hope but for this interview he did one that was in keeping with Bob's actual age at the time of the show.
Two improv masters!
It always amazes me that Mike McKean, a comic genius himself, is just hanging around the periphery
I long for the days of SCTV!
The Canada jokes are killin me lol
The band leader is now in Better Call Saul.