Reaction To The Red Green Show (Handyman Corner)
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- Reaction To The Red Green Show (Handyman Corner) Classic Canadian TV Comedy
This is my reaction to The Red Green Show (Handyman Corner) Classic Canadian TV Comedy
In this video I react to the Handyman Corner skit from The Red Green Show. Many people told me about this Canadian comedy television show so I thought I had to make a reaction to it and it didn't disappoint. The show stars Canadian comedian Steve Smith as the aforementioned Red Green.
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My favourite part of the show was the bit at the end when Red and the Possum Lodge guys would recite, 'the man's prayer': "I'm a man. But I can change. If I have to. I guess."
Ah-men.
The He-man Woman-haters club, lol
Quandi Onmus Flunkus Moritati kills me every time
My husbands favourite saying! I keep telling him it’s all lies, because he’ll never change! 😂😂
Remember if they don't find you handsome, they at least can call you handy.
Every guy I know has dressed as red green for Halloween at one point and using duct tape to fix something will forever be known as “red greening it” 😂
Handyman’s secret weapon 😂
1st Respect w/poppy avatar thingy
Ya sure about talkin openly about "The DuckTape" ? - loose lipz - sink canoez - bro!🇨🇦
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Steve Smith, aka Red Green, is a Canadian treasure. His shows are simply brilliant.
As a Canadian, I’ve been enjoying your videos on our comedy. And it is very similar to British humour. The Red Green show was great! Makes me feel nostalgic seeing this. There are so many great little shows: Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Kids In The Hall, Corner Gas, Wayne and Shuster. We seem to excel at polite, yet self deprecating, and corny humOur.
Air Farce are another big time Canadian comedy legendary group. I tend to lean more toward Trailer Park Boys than Kids in the Hall, I got their attraction and all, but they just never did it for me.
You forgot Codco, lol My favourite was the Greg Malone played Barbara Frum interviewing a Hurricane that was downgraded to a tropical storm. "Are you bitter?" friggen hilarious
Haven't thought about the Royal Canadian Air Farce in a long time. But you left out SCTV - the show that provided the seed and a lot of the early talent for Saturday Night Live
SCTV
A lot of great Canadian comedy . Loved them all. My faves were Trailer Park Boys and Corner Gas
Loved this show....the catch phrases still stick with me. "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy" and "keep your stick on the ice". Always full of ingenious hairbrained schemes.
"I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together"
And of course, the translation of the Possum Lodge motto is: "When all else fails, play dead."
Keep your stick on the ice
"Remember, this is only temporary... unless it works."
This show is woven into the fibre of so many lives! I grew up overseas and when we moved back to Canada, I didn’t know how to connect culturally with my peers. Watching this show with them was a HUGE part of my connecting with Canadian culture and feeling like I belonged in it.
Can’t say enough how much this show helped an odd kid find a place in Canada.
I grew up with this show because it was originally a skit on Smith & Smith in the early 1980s. Another great skit from that show was The Inventor which was an entirely different character from Red Green, but pretty clearly the precursor of Handyman Corner. When the Red Green Show started shooting in Hamilton, my mom took me to see the taping. Then we saw tapings a few years later in London, Ontario. It was seriously funny stuff to be there live. They were constantly cracking jokes between takes and having fun with the audience. The show started out small and not widely known, but it got picked up by Global, a big private TV network, and was renamed the New Red Green Show for a while, and then finally ended up on CBC where it became a cultural phenomenon by the late 1990s - books, movies, TV commercials, etc.
I was hoping that someone would mention Smith & Smith!
I went to elementary school with Dave and Max Smith (the kids); Dave was in my class. Having such a well-known Dad (locally back in the day), I remember going over to their house once to play with Dave and when Steve Smith opened the door, I said, "Hello, Steve" as I walked in. He said, "glad we're on a first name basis, Jon.". I typically would have addressed friends' parents as Mr. or Mrs. Smith, but I saw all their names on the opening credits of each show so I got real life and TV life mixed up a bit as a kid. :)
I believe CHCH tv in Hamilton was where Smith & Smith was on. We loved it.
Just the thought of their theme song and her battle with cancer brings a tear to my eyes. Loved their comedy together.
CHCH had so much original programming in the ‘70s and ‘80s..
It was a fun time.
Oh my, Mert! You've jumped down a wonderful rabbit hole to be sure. There are so many great episodes I remember of this series. Harold is my absolute favorite character. Check out an episode with him. He's Red's nephew. Keep your stick on the ice!
Harold for Sure. Lots of Canadian Talent on this Show. :)
So many Wonderful Characters :)
@@hartplanet356 Do you remember, the crossover between the two shows, when Harold moved to the city. His segment was recorded on the set of Traders. :)
I thought Harold was also in due south but I might be mixing him up with someone else. Anyway, Patrick McKenna turned into Harold brilliantly. I tried teaching my kids about real Canadian culture by watching this show but they weren't having it.
@@Erndog67 I know he was on something else too but it escapes me. My kids are 46 and 38 so are old enough to appreciate this show. My son used to watch it with me. Have to ask if he's tried getting the grandsons to watch it.
Love Red Green! Of course we all have our favourite characters from the show:
Nephew Harold (Patrick McKenna - in a lot of Canadian shows - Traders, Stargate sg1)
Hap Shaughnessy (Gordon Pinsent - great Canadian actor who recently passed away)
Dougie Franklin (Ian Thomas - brother of Dave Thomas who played hoser Doug McKenzie)
Edgar K. B. Montrose (Graham Greene - Oscar nomination for Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves)
That's just a few of the weird & wonderful characters on Red Green.....all were so much fun!
The Red Green Show has so many running gags, such a good show, takes me back.
He and his wife had a show called Smith &Smith before Red Green. Awesome show with singing and comedy skits
This was a staple of my early childhood. The man's prayer got frequently quoted at home, and i remember some of the handyman corner skits where they used hundreds, if not thousands of rolls of duct tape to fix a car or a boat and. It. WORKED. The crazy contraptions, his nephew who was both the weirdest guy and sometimes the only sane person there, lots of good memories. I should watch some of the greatest hits again.
You must check out the shows that include his nephew, Harold. Hilarious. We Canadians love to poke fun at ourselves.
Oh my goodness I love Harold ! His nerdy laugh !
Yes, yes yes!!!
I used to catch parts of this show on tv when I was a kid in the 90's. Now I can appreciate the genius of it and understand the innuendo in the other segments. So happy to see someone reacting to it.
My brother worked on that show over the years and got me in to two of the shows (yes, the audience participated). The hilarious parts were the actors talking between the takes ... no way that dialogue would make it past the censors.
I think it's that way with a lot of comedies. CBC Radio(!) had a Saturday morning comedy program called Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show starring Bill Reiter. They taped some episodes at UBC, and believe me, a uni is a tough audience. But it was hysterical to watch, often because of miscues, or enjoying the foley man and his sound effect device, and especially the scores of casual and often crude remarks made by the cast between bits or after a flub. They must have trimmed 75% of what we heard away for show that actually aired. I caught the finished episode at my Saturday job and it was nothing near as funny as what we heard at school.
Yes!! So glad you got to react to Red Green. There's so many funny segments on this show.. like the Possom lodge word game, where the "contestant" takes forever to guess the word even though the hints make it obvious. Then they're given some silly made up gift certificate for winning. At the end of the show they all come together to do The Man's Prayer - "I'm a man, but I can change if I have to.. I guess" haha.
Ahh yes!!! The Word Game!
Good old Red! You only need two things, a hammer and a roll of duct tape. If'n you can't fix it with the duct tape then, turn it into something else with the hammer. I loved the episode when he installed AC in his van's passenger door window. He could only drive as far as the extension cords length.
Handyman’s toolbox…duct tape and a hammer. If it’s stuck or not moving, use the hammer. If it’s loose or falling apart use the duct tape. If neither works, the problem must be electrical.
This show is my childhood. "If my wife's watching i'll be home right after the meeting......". I forget what they'd be called but there's some good slapstick comedy every episode, think it's in black and white with Red narrating over it.
Adventures with Bill
Yes it's called adventures with Bill, hilarious!
Another one I liked from this show was an episode where he was standing in front of two golf carts and said he was shocked at how much it cost to play a round of golf, and as he put it “but the golf carts were only $20! So I bought two!”. LOL
I grew up watching this show. The segments where they gave advice where always my favorite. The other characters on the show are as equally well written and preformed
There is a new show still running on CBC tv in Canada called Still Standing, Comedian Johnny Harris from Newfoundland and a star of the Murdoch Mysteries series, travels around Canada to small towns that are still standing despite hard times. Great show....
Corny humour but totally endearing nevertheless. Absolutely amazing how the show’s crew manages to create these handyman “solutions”. I always loved his fixes using duct tape as a remedy for almost every problem in and around the home. (I don’t recall ever seeing “Bernice” though. 😅) 🇨🇦🥰❤️
So sorry but, unfortunately, I can’t respond to you on Telegram as I don’t have it. Not sure how it works as I’ve always used other methods. 🇨🇦🫤
I LOVE this show! Spent many nights as a (90's) child watching this with my late uncle. It will always remind me of him.
My husband loved Red Green so much and he also found multiple uses for duct tape. His daughter even found a t-shirt with words printed on which looked like duct tape. It said -
Duct tape is like The Force - it has a light side and a dark side - and it holds the Universe together.
I remember watching this when it was first aired and I found it hilarious and a great testimony to inventive people. Sure, some inventions look a bit strange but I was blown over when I spot, in the end credits, that every one was done for real and were actually functional. No trickery here!
Amazing!
My favourite parts were "My adventures with Bill", "The Exports", and "The Word Game". The guy who played Bill is Rick Green, who is part of The Frantics comedy troupe. I highly recommend listening to Boot to the Head. Another regular was Graham Green; yes, the guy from Dances with Wolves.
My absolute favourite comedy show was Corner Gas.
If you want to go way back, then there's Wayne and Shuster - The Brown Pumpernickel, Rinse the Blood from my Toga.
"I told him "Juli don't go" in a raspy voice that would just about make Julius Cesar go to the forum on the ides of March.
LOVED, LOVED Steve Smith and the Red Green show! As I recall, it started in the very early '90s and ran for 15, or so years. There are so many outstanding Possum Lodge episodes, every one is funny but many of them will have you rolling on the floor. Patrick McKenna who played Red's nephew Harold was absolutely brilliant in the show. Couple of sayings from the show:
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy 😅 Keep your stick on the ice 😅 and of course, the handyman's secret weapon (duct tape) 😅
Fabulous show - watched it in New Zealand. Loved it. Very funny.
oh this takes me back to my teens when I watched this show all the time. I loved Red's DIY projects. My favourite episode was when Red decided to build a BBQ in the back of his pick up truck. Red was a master of comedy with duck tape. 🤣🥰❤
Fantastic show. The humour was subtle in a lot of spots and totally slapstick in others. Thanks. This brought back a lot of memories.
I watched this many times as a kid. Good show.
What a blast from the past. I actually went to a taping of the show back in the day. My favourite segment was The Adventures with Bill. Great reaction.
Loved the Red Green Show! So funny!! 😂 Corner Gas is a great Canadian tv show to watch too!
On your travels, don't miss SCTV, perhaps the greatest of all Canadian Comedy Shows. Red Green is a living treasure for Canada...I think he was like that in person, funny and self-defacing in the Canuck style.
I remember being a kid, and watching this with my Dad... God rest his soul... One day, for his birthday, we rented the Red Green movie from the ol movie store, and by golly, I laughed so hard hard my dad had to tell me to stop... I was 8. It was right up there with watching Yvon of the Yukon, and Star Gate. That last one's not so Canadian, but he liked it anyway.
My dad didn’t watch TV, unless it was Red Green. That said, it’s one of those shows that most Canadian men have in common. Definitely Member Berries!
Thanks for getting around to this, love this show, I miss it soooo much. Thanks for the memories, one of my fav segments of Handyman Corner was when he cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving or when they did the beer advent calendar. This show was filmed at the CBC building in Toronto, my dad went there with a few of friends and saw Steve Smith aka Red Green, they said he was one of the nicest guys they ever met, he gave them a roll of duct tape and signed it.
My son met him when he was around 8 or 9. Red was his idol. He still talks about it to this day.
One of my favorite TV shows of all time. We have an LG TV and it has it's own TV channels and there is one that is 24/7 Red Green. I can watch it for hours. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Grew up watching this, thanks for the memories. "Keep your stick on the ice!"
I loved this show growing up. His main thing was using duct tape for everything.
I remember one episode he was trying to reuse broken things, he had a lawn mower, a ladder and a bike(cut in half) so he tried combining them into various things and failed many times. After a few failed ideas he said "if your first few ideas don't work, get more duct tape".
A couple Canadian shows from the 80's were called "Danger Bay" as well as "Beach Combers".. There was another show called "Littlest Hobo" with a dog..
A show I really liked to watch when growing up is called "Popular Mechanics for Kids". One of the hosts is Elisha Cuthbert who is a popular star now in movies..
There are a number of indigenous shows too.. a modern show is called "Reservation Dogs".. you might find hilarious too.. though it is filmed in Oklahoma..
and who can forget "Corner Gas" for a Canadian Show...
There's a voice, keeps on calling me. Down the road, that's where I'll always be. Every stop I make, I'll make a new friend. Can't stay for long, just turn around I'll be gone again....
@@senhowler 😊
Littlest Hobo, great classic Canadian show
@@senhowler WHOOOOA!!! That gave me goose bumps... I haven't heard those words in nearly fifty years! Another great kid mystery show that I loved back then was, My Secret Identity, which starred Jerry O'Connell (Sooo young!!) and Derek McGrath.
@@leonessity You'll never guess my Secret Identity. Who's on the inside hiding out. You never know what you'll see when you unlock the mystery. Sometimes this double life gets out of hand, but it's all in a day's work...for Ultraman.
Man, those theme songs stick with you.
You have to watch the whole shows. Its hysterical what goes on at the Lodge. Love this show. I watched it all again during lockdown.
Love this show. I remember the handyman corner where he made a car with a retractable wheelbase using a boat trailer winch to make shorter radius turns. Brilliant!
One of the smartest guys I've ever known, he is an instrument mechanic, loved and laughed his ass off at this show.
I used to watch Red Green all the time.
Good stuff.
Always loved the great Canadian icons added like Gordan pincent.
This was a favorite show of mine when I was younger. Two segments I always hoped to catch were Handyman's Corner and Adventures with Bill
Great reaction!! I've watched Red Green since day one, and it was a hilarious series!
Steve Smith (actual name of Red Green) is a comedic genius!!
What I've always loved with Handyman's Corner is that in some strange way - his ideas 'do' work...kind of! There is merit to his ideas, no matter how outlandish and seemingly ridiculous. Of course, most fail spectacularly - but as a mechanical engineer myself, I note all the things that 'could' work with his hairbrained ideas!
The parallel parking lift - yes, it could work. The poolside track/caterpillar system - heck, it DID work (won't be good at higher speed, but he drove that car, and it did exactly what he designed it to do!)
There are so, SO many others that could be watched, reviewed, and certainly laughed at!
Yes, his catch phrases are thus: "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy"; Duct tape is a "handyman's secret weapon"; and at the end of most episodes, there is the Possum Lodge meeting where the members recite 'the man's prayer': "I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to...I guess".
Love this show so much good times to sit down and and laugh.
Years back I lived in Kitchener Ontario and I worked with guys who loved Red Green. One of those guy learned that the show was filmed in Hamilton Ontario about an hour down the road. He got tickets and we all went to a taping. It was a blast and Steve Smith (who played Red Green) was just about the nicest guy you could meet.
He started this character way back in the '80s on a comedy show he did with his wife called Smith and Smith. Grew up watching that show then the Red Green show came out and it's just one of those shows that never gets old. One of my favorite parts is the game show they do where the one person has to get the other to say a specific word. It's just hilarious to watch.
It was one of my favourite shows growing up.... Your reactions are priceless!!!!
OMG!!! From Washington State. Loved this show, watched it on the PBS.
I grew up with this show on CBC and it was one of the best shows ever created!
Red Green was an amazing comedy show. The first handyman corner that came to mind was the episode where he converted a refrigerator into a dishwasher.
They are always sincere in their craziness.
Red Green was my favourite show. He reminded me so much of my brother. He is sending up all these guys who have these do it yourself. I was a member of Possum Lodge, the fa club.
The segment "Adventures with Bill" was extraordinary ... classic slapstick comedy!
Red Green ( played by Steve Smith) was the funniest show. There are so many favourite bits. Duct tape fixes anything, One of my favourite bits was the Possum Lodge word games. Thanks for taking me down memory lane. 🤣🤣🤣
I am Canadian 66 ....Mr Smith is amazing funny guy...canadians love his great angle on funny...look up his duck tape van episode
Lived in PA and loved this show ,so friends of mine got tickets to the taping of the show in London ,Ontario. Got to be part of the show and had a blast meeting all the cast members and finding we were on the "Cheese Project" episode.
Great show. Watched it in my early teens. Right up there with corner gas
I would absolutely watch this when nothing else was on, i did not understand most of the jokes (I was a kid) but I absolutely loved the shenanigans! Thanks for the nostalgia!
I saw the show live a few years ago. Not the whole cast just Steven. It was a surprise gift from my wife. My son laughed just as hard as I did.
His nephew Harold. Priceless.
“If the women don’t find you handsome they should at least find you handy” this is an amazing show
Some of the best bits were when he was with his buddies or his nephew Harold. There was Bill, he was kind of like Mr. Bill (70's) SNL, who always had something unfortunate happen to him. Or "the expert" played by Graham Green (who was a lead in Dances with Wolves)
I love the Red Green Show. When I was a kid and my parents were gone on a trip or something, my brother and I would stay with my grandparents and we'd watch the Red Green Show with them before bed.
the red green show was one of my favorites for sure when i was a kid in the 90s
One of my favorite show when I was a kid.
I grew up in Minnesota and we just loved Red Green
What great memories I have! of Red Green.
DUCT TAPE - Solves everything! Red could prove that.
Canadians laugh at themselves and this show was the epitome of that.
I remember always watching the show with my Dad. Red Green made a movie as well.
Love Red Green! Handyman Corner and Adventures With Bill were my favourite bits!
I still remember watching Red as a recurring sketch on the old Smith & Smith show Steve Smith and his wife Morag used to do. Back when Red still had a rubber bathtub duck on his hat.
I grew up with this show because of my grandfather and great grandfather.
Thanks to Public Broadcasting we to the south of Canada (USA) got to enjoy Red for many years.
Red Green was started as a summer fill in show and was so successful, that it was surpassing big budget American shows in the rankings.
Oh wow ! Today I did a crossword the anxwer was handy. I immediately said out loud "if the women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy". I haven't thought of the Red Green show for years. Then I saw this tonight. What a co- inkydink!
He and his wife also did a show before Red Green called 'Smith and Smith'. His wife is the producer of both.
I actually was at a live taping of the Red Green Show, back in 2002, it was a Christmas episode, and one in our group was chosen to be in the Possum Lodge meeting.
Fun episode.
Take care, and all the best.
One of my favorites was when he put spokes on wheels and attached shoes to them. Sneakers, loafers, dress shoes and gumboots. When it broke, which was right away, he just said ''hmmm...my car threw a shoe.''
This may have already been said in the comments but I loved his characterization of duct tape as "the handyman's secret weapon"
This show was a family favourite when I was kid ❤
Been to about a dozen tapings of tthat show!!! LOVE IT!
lol true Canadian comedy . We call my dad Ted Green because i sware he's related . use to make new ' better' tools from existing ones lol made for an interestomg childhood lol love your reactions to all things Canadian enjoy 🇨🇦
Adventures with Bill was always a fun segment. The time Red made an air hockey table out of two old dryers sticks out as a handyman corner.
Much of my childhood was spent watching this show
i used to watch it with my dad all the time it was such a good family friendly comedy and we allllll knew a guy like that im sure u as well had ur own version lol. Red Green was super over the top and silly but it was still some how super relatable didnt matter who you were
Eric - You have a great last name.
You should watch as many episodes as you can. Red Green is hilarious, especially anything to do with Possum Lodge, like their pledge "Quando omni flunkus moritati" (which is almost Latin for "When all else fails, play dead"). I loved that show. Duct tape, anyone? And that most Canadian version of farewell and take care: Keep your stick on the ice.
Handyman Corner should have been called “things you can do with duct tape”
Red Green was a Canadian institution ! He represents every Canadian farmer and back woods “fix it” man in the country!
Peace
(You deserve way more subscribers! I’m gonna spread the word! Cheers, Mert Can)
This is so sweet watching these. Thank you. Good old fashion comedy. Kinda reminds me of Red Skeleton shiw
My favorite handyman corner is when he welded two cars together because he wanted to make his own hummer.
Oh fantastic! Haven’t seen this is years. Hilarious guy 😂 Handyman Corner was probably my favourite part.
Some of the cast of this show are incredible actors. Edgar Montrose (Master Blaster) was played by Oscar award winning Graham Greene ("Dances With Wolves"), Hap Shaughnessy was played by Gordon Pinsent (Oscar-nominated for "Away From Her"), Paul Gross (award-winning TV series, "Due South") - etc., etc., etc. And Steve Smith - the host - is the guy who writes the show. His Spring-time Haiku poems are hysterical.
This is typical Canadian humour - almost British, in nature - and not mean or blue - just really funny. Note: many US-based Hollyweird comedy shows are written by Canadians . . .
I remember way back he and his wife had a show that's where it all started from .Ya come on over you will see people will use what we have to make life simpler .It was a great show
This was a staple of CBC's Friday night comedy lineup, alongside Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Those were good times.
I live in nw Pa and our local public tv channel carried the show for years. We used to watch it every Saturday night. I still think it was unique, sometimes crazy, and always funny
This channel is obsessed with Canada EH!
Red Greene is one of my favorite comedy shows.
The Handyman corner was my favourite part, I got a big kick out of all of them especially when he made a satellite dish. A friend of ours had a Red Green weekend and the show sent her a box of props and prizes. My Brother won first prize when he built a boat out of Duck Tape and fashioned a drill into a propeller. His prize was a really nice Denim shirt with the Red Green logo on the pocket. The rest of the show was not to my taste but people here LOVED it, I it was on for 15 years! The first time I saw him in action was on a show Smith and Smith where he did a comedy/variety show with his wife. He was the comedy! The man cannot stop...I saw a garden show visit the Smith house and his wife Morag tried to talk to the host but Steve was there too and I think that man is always 'ON' and not much garden talk managed to get into the interview. I am so glad I got to see it.