O’Hara is a comic genius... how she (in character) solemnly executes her blocking and delivery with massive focus and preparedness whilst at all times being appropriate AWFUL is phenomenal acting. A less gifted actor would have hammed it up whereas we actually see a rare and beautiful moment of clarity here, even if it’s still next level Amateur with a capital A. All her ‘Midnights at the Oasis’s’ have led up to this moment and she isn’t going to let Corky or Blaine down...
Me and some friends spent about an hour rewinding and playing that last note of Corky's over and over again years ago when this came out on DVD with the deleted scenes. We were crawling on the floor practically peeing on ourselves we were laughing so hard. For the life of me I can't understand why they deleted this part. I guess it was too long... One of the best memories of my life. There truly is no better medicine than laughter and this movie has given me enough of it to last a life time!
Yep. When those deleted scenes were on the DVD it was a treasure trove. And my friends and I watched that last, rich note dozens of times too. One of the great musical utterances in film history. Ron even broke character he was so taken by the moment.
My exact sentiments!!!!!! I rewound that last note over and over while watching this on DVD at about one in the morning, greatly disturbing anyone who was asleep in my household - and I laughed long and hard!!!!!! Fred Willard's Henry Fonda impression is priceless. And Eugene Levy's key-change attempt is hilarious! I read that Christopher Guest deleted the song simply because he felt it would make the movie too long. But even if he had left it in, the film would barely have registered at 90 minutes. He made a huge mistake in my opinion, because this song had remarkable achievements. In addition to being the best and funniest thing about this really good movie, it's actually a touching and very well-written song.
The amazing thing is that these bad songs are actually "good"--they're entertaining to listen to and they're well-performed. It's hard to write songs that are both awful and entertaining--on purpose.
Yeah, WfG pokes some fun at the Blaine locals for being completely captivated by Corky's musical, but when your friends and neighbors put on a production to celebrate your town, you are permitted to suspend disbelief and just enjoy it. And to be sure I've heard worse songs in celebrated musicals.
They were written by the Spinal Tap guys, who are not only talented comedians and musicians but talented songwriters as well- triple threats, if you will.
Eugene Levy at 3:32 when his voice, like the riverbank he's singing about, just collapses out from under him and his eyes dart around in panic -- that just destroys me. 🤣🤣🤣
I like everyone's different "rural" accent. The two women sound like they're from the South, Eugene Levy kinda sounds like he's from New England and Fred Willard sounds like Henry Fonda. :)
There's some commentary on the DVD where they say that IS one the big reasons it was cut - all the characters are clearly really earnest about trying to do this song well, so it feels bad to laugh at them the way we laugh at, say, the stool song.
@@erikvonrieseAbsurd. NOTHING in this scene makes them sound "too good." And why would that be a bad thing? Guest made an awful choice, almost for reasons of sabotaging his own film it seems. What it DOES show is the SINCERITY of the human characters. God forbid that should ever happen in story telling.
and the look Fred Willard gives him 😂 it’s so realistic it makes me wonder if it was actually written or if it was improved in the movie, Bc if it was scripted for him to do that I can’t believe how well Fred reacted. The little double take he does and how for half a second his expression is like “what the hell is he doing” but then he remembers he’s on stage and goes with it and tries to look serious again it’s sooo good
JFC - "You taught me how ta be a man! How to pitch a bale of hay....how to wrassle a steer to the ground and apply a fiery brand to his hindquarters, and ...*sigh* yes, you taught me how to love a woman"
HOLY CRAP!!! HOW DID I MISS THIS????? No bigger than a woodpecker! The audiences reactions are priceless! CORKY!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 I’ve done community theatre for years. I KNOW these people. 😆😆😆😍
This really would make a great broadway musical/play. Surprised it hasn’t been tested. Just do all the interviews like breaking the fourth wall talking to an audience .
This song is gorgeous... It's pure Stephen Sondheim. I think it was cut from the final film... because it's just TOO good... too good to be believable as a smalltown community theater song...
I love the totally inappropriate, historically and geographically inaccurate 18th Century "slave talk" that Catherine O'Hara's character chose for this number. LOL! She's so sincere and you just know Ron helped her research for that accent with extensive notes, etc.
That’s one of the best parts of this movie- imagining the quiet, very masculine Johnny doing all these performances that we see the effeminate, flamboyant Corky do.
The first time I saw this outtake after watching the movie, and heard that final note by Corky, I almost died. I really don't think i've laughed harder in my entire life. So funny.
I saw a recent Eugene Levy interview, he said while filming he kept cracking up and would literally have to keep subtly sink to the floor and crawl off camera more times than he could count
“We might not be too important, in the grand ole heavenly schemeee And when the skies will have ported, we say let the water come cuz you can’t drown a dreammm” Best part
In the musical part of this movie there are these knowing references to the great Broadway scores from the last 60 years. They are done effortlessly and elegantly and the score they come up with stands beautifully on its own. THAT TAKES TALENT! Only one little bothers me- the use of a midi keyboard patch for the trumpet music. Why didn’t they hire a trumpet player?
That is such a good question. Maybe it’s some kind of inside joke; a nod to Broadway producers increasingly replacing real instruments with synths. The trumpet player doubling timpani is definitely a good gag.
kingbeauregard I love to picture what this whole musical would’ve been like if Johnny had actually stayed it. He was so quiet, it’s nearly impossible to imagine him singing and doing this big, over-the-top performance.
This is such a great movie, as were all the movies this amazing group of actors made. Reminds to watch Christopher’s dancing scene in this, comedy gold.
Corky St Clair is one of the great comic characters, right up there with Chaplin’s little tramp and W.C. Fields’s alcoholic. Christopher Guest deserved an Oscar for that role, but hey, the Academy is not big on comedies, especially indie ones with no big stars
Charlie Day that this was the inspiration for The Nightman Cometh on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. And more specifically, Charlie’s final note during that show was in tribute to Corky’s final note on this deleted scene.
OMG I've never seen this...and wasn't expecting Christopher's final note. LOL. Humorously improvised (to an extent. Not like his later films though) Be blessed always.
O’Hara is a comic genius... how she (in character) solemnly executes her blocking and delivery with massive focus and preparedness whilst at all times being appropriate AWFUL is phenomenal acting. A less gifted actor would have hammed it up whereas we actually see a rare and beautiful moment of clarity here, even if it’s still next level Amateur with a capital A.
All her ‘Midnights at the Oasis’s’ have led up to this moment and she isn’t going to let Corky or Blaine down...
I'm going to memorize your comment so I sound clever at parties .
Me and some friends spent about an hour rewinding and playing that last note of Corky's over and over again years ago when this came out on DVD with the deleted scenes. We were crawling on the floor practically peeing on ourselves we were laughing so hard. For the life of me I can't understand why they deleted this part. I guess it was too long... One of the best memories of my life. There truly is no better medicine than laughter and this movie has given me enough of it to last a life time!
Katharin Hilbert we woulda been good friends!!! We did the same growing up!!!
I did the same thing!!!!
nick clay same here
Yep. When those deleted scenes were on the DVD it was a treasure trove. And my friends and I watched that last, rich note dozens of times too. One of the great musical utterances in film history. Ron even broke character he was so taken by the moment.
My exact sentiments!!!!!! I rewound that last note over and over while watching this on DVD at about one in the morning, greatly disturbing anyone who was asleep in my household - and I laughed long and hard!!!!!! Fred Willard's Henry Fonda impression is priceless. And Eugene Levy's key-change attempt is hilarious! I read that Christopher Guest deleted the song simply because he felt it would make the movie too long. But even if he had left it in, the film would barely have registered at 90 minutes. He made a huge mistake in my opinion, because this song had remarkable achievements. In addition to being the best and funniest thing about this really good movie, it's actually a touching and very well-written song.
The city council member who is obsessed with Corky cracks me the hell up. The look he’s giving him at 4:40 is pure gold.
The way that Fred Willard looks at Corky during the last note is brilliant. 😂👏 RIP
haha!
yes, he was the master! RIfuckingP
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh, ahhhh”
It’s genius!!
goddamn it man RIP. so, so, funny
How did he not die laughing?!
The amazing thing is that these bad songs are actually "good"--they're entertaining to listen to and they're well-performed. It's hard to write songs that are both awful and entertaining--on purpose.
Yeah, WfG pokes some fun at the Blaine locals for being completely captivated by Corky's musical, but when your friends and neighbors put on a production to celebrate your town, you are permitted to suspend disbelief and just enjoy it.
And to be sure I've heard worse songs in celebrated musicals.
They were written by the Spinal Tap guys, who are not only talented comedians and musicians but talented songwriters as well- triple threats, if you will.
You have to write songs that are clearly bad, but also give you the same feeling that the people in the audience are getting.
Right, it still has the musical quality to it that makes it fun
@@crescentfreshbret it's just them and Barbara Streisand.
Having been in local theatre and opera, I see so many familiar people in this movie. It’s as much documentary as comedy.
Bob balance is every teacher in the arts
A mockumentary… if you will
After watching this, I'm going to go home and bite my pillow.
Because you're all bastard people.
Marcelo Romero He didn’t have any swimming in his show.
I just hate you and your ass face!!!
The performance Bob Balaban gives conducting is the unheralded hero here.
He's genius!
True
Or the always superb professional Orchestra they use
I find Parker Posey just enthrallingly gorgeous.
Yes. I've watched 'Teacher's pet.' countless times.
How this scene didn’t make the final movie is beyond me.
There were a few they could have left out instead.
Pharmacist "Steve Stark" wiping away tears more than once is just hilarious. ..."God I wish I could have been in this show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
LMFAO that is one of my favorite moments 😂😂😂
Eugene Levy at 3:32 when his voice, like the riverbank he's singing about, just collapses out from under him and his eyes dart around in panic -- that just destroys me. 🤣🤣🤣
The frolicking dolphin prop was a nice touch
“frolicking dolphin” is quite the evocative description.
These actors are so good together. Real gems, all of the Guest movies.
Corky's professional acting experience really helps lift this scene - magic.
I like everyone's different "rural" accent. The two women sound like they're from the South, Eugene Levy kinda sounds like he's from New England and Fred Willard sounds like Henry Fonda. :)
Parker Posey grew up in Louisiana and Mississippi. :)
You two just hush now, ya heah?
Eugene speaks in a brogue at one point.
RIP fred Williard.
Hooray for community theater 😊👍💓
That last note by Corky is seriously gut spittingly hysterical... I can watch it over and over and still crack up... Pure genius!
Almost as funny as the look Ron Albertson gives him as he hits the note!
Here for the late great Fred Willard, god I’d forgotten how sweet this movie actually is. So funny but with real affection.
Except Guest killed this scene.
I know it was cut for pacing, but I like to think this was cut because it was too good. It genuinely makes me tear up every time.
It's in the deleted scenes on the DVD 😅
There's some commentary on the DVD where they say that IS one the big reasons it was cut - all the characters are clearly really earnest about trying to do this song well, so it feels bad to laugh at them the way we laugh at, say, the stool song.
Yes. It's really good
@@erikvonrieseAbsurd. NOTHING in this scene makes them sound "too good." And why would that be a bad thing? Guest made an awful choice, almost for reasons of sabotaging his own film it seems. What it DOES show is the SINCERITY of the human characters. God forbid that should ever happen in story telling.
Wait this was cut? I must have the directors cut because I always remember this scene being in the movie
It's not just the note but also the stupid self-indulgent face he makes at the same time. PURE BRILLIANCE
and the look Fred Willard gives him 😂 it’s so realistic it makes me wonder if it was actually written or if it was improved in the movie, Bc if it was scripted for him to do that I can’t believe how well Fred reacted. The little double take he does and how for half a second his expression is like “what the hell is he doing” but then he remembers he’s on stage and goes with it and tries to look serious again it’s sooo good
Corky absolutely nailed it with that final note. Pure brilliance! “CORKEEEE!”
Check out Fred at the end. He does a double-take and you almost know he didn't expect that last note either.
That’s what made this movie so special
Nailed it
"... can draaave a maaan waaald."
Nothing can keep those teased bangs down.
some really GOOD hairspray
Every. Damn. Scene. In. The. Movie. Has. Them.
This song - all the songs - I can't get over how good they are 😆😍 The show is a gem and should be performed somewhere 💟
And Dr. Pearl gets his moment in the spotlight... and we see he is a natural musical genius. Very touching moment.
Lol. He definitely gave his all. And Eugene does actually have a decent voice.
Mall-hair on the frontier is a nice touch.
Staaaaahhhpp 😂😂😭😭😭
I’ve watched this movie 100+ and it makes me belly laugh every time I watch it.
3:33 Worst Modulation To A Different Key EVER. 😂
BEST worst.
I love it so much.
Hahahaha
thank you
JFC - "You taught me how ta be a man! How to pitch a bale of hay....how to wrassle a steer to the ground and apply a fiery brand to his hindquarters, and ...*sigh* yes, you taught me how to love a woman"
It takes brilliant actors to play actors who are this bad.
So true.
Love the adjustment of the glasses at 2:56 😄
HOLY CRAP!!! HOW DID I MISS THIS?????
No bigger than a woodpecker!
The audiences reactions are priceless!
CORKY!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve done community theatre for years. I KNOW these people. 😆😆😆😍
"You taught me how to be a maaahnn."
I lost it on that one.
Really wish this hadn't been cut from the film :)
I love the audience reactions and how they are so seriously involved.
This might be the best song in the whole movie.
Take away the comic performances and you are left with a musically complex and moving piece that would be at home on Broadway.
@@johntechwriter 100% agree.
Wonderful! I never knew there were deleted scenes around, giving me even more GUFFMAN to love. This makes me very happy.
This really would make a great broadway musical/play. Surprised it hasn’t been tested. Just do all the interviews like breaking the fourth wall talking to an audience .
Agreed! I just had that same thought. I desperately want to see this performed on Broadway.
Oh God yeah. It would make an absolutely hilarious play.
I just ran across this! Guffman has been a favorite of mine for years but I never knew that this part existed. Thank you for posting it.
This song is gorgeous... It's pure Stephen Sondheim. I think it was cut from the final film... because it's just TOO good... too good to be believable as a smalltown community theater song...
I can't get over Corky wearing his pants backwards
Great set. Wonderful actors playing bad. I love it
How can it be that i've never seen this before! Tears! Tears, I tell ya! Damnit Corky ... ya shoulda had it all!
This has aged like wine.
I love the totally inappropriate, historically and geographically inaccurate 18th Century "slave talk" that Catherine O'Hara's character chose for this number. LOL! She's so sincere and you just know Ron helped her research for that accent with extensive notes, etc.
Ha, yeah. During their "scene studies at home". 😂
thegorn68 my favorite line from her is when she describes the river as being “mean like a man”.
I was expectin' Colonel Angus to ride up!
It is nice to see her ignoring her instincts.
"... extensive notes, etc." 🤣🤣🤣
I'm so glad Johnny couldn't do the show.
+softshoes He tried to steal a stamp machine once. He's no good.
But Corky... GOD I wish I was in the show!
That’s one of the best parts of this movie- imagining the quiet, very masculine Johnny doing all these performances that we see the effeminate, flamboyant Corky do.
But Johnny was so frickin gorgeous!
He wouldn’t have added anything to the show...😀
this NEVER should havebeen cut !
“The river looks angry” (happy fish frolics in the waves )
No comedic lineup in the 90s or 2000s ever compared to this group. But subtlety is lost on the masses.
Parker Posey never disappoints.
The first time I saw this outtake after watching the movie, and heard that final note by Corky, I almost died. I really don't think i've laughed harder in my entire life. So funny.
Ditto
Me too lol
I saw a recent Eugene Levy interview, he said while filming he kept cracking up and would literally have to keep subtly sink to the floor and crawl off camera more times than he could count
Sorry for barking Lord!!
Corky lets loose with an entrancing falsetto at the end and STILL does his double-taking papa proud!
Do you see the river, mama?
Yes, I see it.
LOLOLOLOL
These songs are actually good.
When good people die and go to Heaven, they wake up in Blaine.
"And then the water picks us clean as a chicken leg booooone...." Good Lord have mercy, what a fate for poor Eugene!
I love her hair! In Alabama it’s called The Prattville Peak! How the women ever tortured their hair to look like this is a mystery.
"no bigger than a wood-pecker ...." HAHAHA !!!!
Catherine O'Hara is hysterical in this sketch. She puts on that weird accent. It gets me every time.
I KNOW!!! its fantastic!!!
And always has those high bangs, no matter what time period her scene takes place in.
@ Luke Hatcher - And Ron's expression when Corky sings that last note... priceless.
Ron spices it up on 4:03 by doing some of his Henry Fonda lol
Someone, somewhere, anywhere, should put on this show. It would be a riot.
LazlosPlane we are doing this deleted scene specifically for our schools Showtune showcase! i am gonna be the farmer.
"River don't get mean like a man...don't want the water raging wild like an angry man can."
These are my people. Royalty in my book.
Spinal Tap actually played this song as part of their acoustic tour in 2009.
"Hush, chile. Hush."
+fuzzycublb the weird voice she comes up with for that line is perfect.
Hoosh
0:38 "Yes...I see it" (Kills me every time)
“We might not be too important, in the grand ole heavenly schemeee
And when the skies will have ported, we say let the water come cuz you can’t drown a dreammm”
Best part
I can keep watching Waiting for Guffman til tge day I day…in fact, please make my memorial service a screening of WFG ❤❤🙏
1) catherine o'hara's bangs, 2) parker posey's eye shadow, 3) the way corky knotted his shirt around his waist. PURE GOLD.
In the musical part of this movie there are these knowing references to the great Broadway scores from the last 60 years. They are done effortlessly and elegantly and the score they come up with stands beautifully on its own. THAT TAKES TALENT!
Only one little bothers me- the use of a midi keyboard patch for the trumpet music.
Why didn’t they hire a trumpet player?
That is such a good question. Maybe it’s some kind of inside joke; a nod to Broadway producers increasingly replacing real instruments with synths. The trumpet player doubling timpani is definitely a good gag.
And they save the best for the last 5 seconds...so damned great
This gives me shivers.
Christopher Guest was playing Joe Exotic 23 years before Tiger King
RIP Fred Willard.
I just noticed Corky's pants are on backward.
And that shirt was designed to show off Matt Keeslar's physique. Poor Corky, you just can't win.
There was an earlier scene about how corky couldn't fit his stuff into Johnny's jeans, so this is prob the solution wardrobe came up with
His pants are on backwards in every scene in the movie.
kingbeauregard I love to picture what this whole musical would’ve been like if Johnny had actually stayed it. He was so quiet, it’s nearly impossible to imagine him singing and doing this big, over-the-top performance.
@@crescentfreshbret his ass face didnt have the range.
The water picks us clean as a chicken leg bone 😂😂
Not only did Corky's dad teach him how to apply a brand to a steer's hindquarters; he also taught him how to love a woman!
Omg, this is the best comedy around. Thanks so much for uploading. I never knew this outtake existed. Truly lmao!
This is such a great movie, as were all the movies this amazing group of actors made. Reminds to watch Christopher’s dancing scene in this, comedy gold.
This makes me way too happy!
"You think a couple of these bags are gonna stop that big brown monster?"
I love all Christopher Guest movies and "Waiting for Guffman" is no exception!!! "CORKY!!!!!!!!"
When Spinal Tap did their acoustic tour like 10 years ago they did this song (along with stuff from A Mighty Wind)
This is up there with Stan Freberg's "Elderly Man River" as parody of the rural school of musical numbers.
this movie is perfect
Corky St Clair is one of the great comic characters, right up there with Chaplin’s little tramp and W.C. Fields’s alcoholic. Christopher Guest deserved an Oscar for that role, but hey, the Academy is not big on comedies, especially indie ones with no big stars
Three people are still mad that Corky took over when Johnny couldn't do the show.
This was like leaving Pinball Wizard out of the musical, Tommy.
One hundred percent 😭😭😭😭
I wish this made it into the final cut, particularly the scene with Corky and Ron.
I never knew until this minute that this even existed!
I just now realized Corky is wearing his pants backwards. Why did it take so long? I watched this scene several times!
Thank you for posting this:)
How has this not been adapted into a real Broadway show by now??
Charlie Day that this was the inspiration for The Nightman Cometh on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. And more specifically, Charlie’s final note during that show was in tribute to Corky’s final note on this deleted scene.
OMG I've never seen this...and wasn't expecting Christopher's final note. LOL.
Humorously improvised (to an extent. Not like his later films though)
Be blessed always.
Check out the double-take Fred Willard gives Christopher Guest when he hits that note - priceless (at 6:03).
no bigger than a ... woodpecker
That cracks me up every time
Fred doing his Henry Fonda again when he enters LOL