R.I.P. Joe Flaherty. You will be missed, Count Floyd. 😢

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

Send your condolences and ... $83 to P. O. Box 43, Mississauga

@AmberAmber

Ай бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver 😂😂😂

Never got old watching Count Floyd get pissed off when the movie wasn't scary.

@matthewgray469

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there an episode where he said "hey kids let's take a look at a clip from tonight's scary movie " and it was a film clip of Shirley Temple dancing and Count Floyd takes off his 3-D glasses and says "what the Hell is that?"

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

"Who ordered that? Prickley?"

If you've seen some Bergman films from the mid-'60s through mid-'70s you know how biting and brilliant this is. One thing I always loved about SCTV is how they did their homework on whatever they parodied. They locked onto a subject of satire down to the minutest level... it was unbelievable to watch back in the early '80s, and it still is. Nobody on TV would do a comic 8-minute trek into minimalist film aesthetics anymore.

@camcretin6610

9 жыл бұрын

agreed...and there's another great SCTV bergman spoof on here, 'scenes from an idiot's marriage' (with martin short as jerry lewis), in case you haven't seen it yet - definitely worth a watch !

@davidshortell

8 жыл бұрын

+camcretin66 www.funnyordie.com/videos/b6d04d2506/scenes-from-an-idiots-marriage-from-sctv-from-greatest-comedy-sketches?_cc=__d___&_ccid=27ed67d057953d6a

@milascave2

5 жыл бұрын

gr: Yea. And the movie being parodied was "hour of the wolf." It was indeed gloomy and slow moving, so much so that I kept wandering out to the bathroom, which I probably h=would not have done had it really been scary.

@artvandelay2155

5 жыл бұрын

@@camcretin6610 sctv was so hot in 1982, they preempted struggling Saturday night night live so NBC could show sctv two nights in a row.

@DoctorPanglossBand

4 жыл бұрын

@@milascave2 Actually, it was a composite of many Bergman films but the whole face thing was from Persona. Hour of the Wolf largely featured Max Von Sydow.

You think it's not scary to be depressed? Best line ever. SCTV for life.

@Ken-gk9mm

5 жыл бұрын

TRUE on all 3 counts, I really must say.

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

Shows how Count Floyd's idea of what's scary differs wildly from the juvenile audience for whom "Monster Chiller Horror Theatre" was intended.

@AmberAmber

3 жыл бұрын

@@wmbrown6 I've never seen this 1 before - Brilliant as usual.💕 & Yeah - Probably🤣

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

@@AmberAmber You look like Liv Ullmann

@AmberAmber

Ай бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver TY ! I love her!! ❤️🫂

The Bergman "Persona" shots were hilarious. With the Swedish gibberish, Catherine O'Hara and Andrea Martin are just great.

@michaelshore2609

2 ай бұрын

the faces drawn on the chins!

What I love about this, besides paying homage to the source material, is how they used a manufactured language and made it sound authentic.

@michaelshore2609

2 ай бұрын

"shrimpkin." i can barely type that without dying laughing. RIP Joe Flaherty.

Joe Flagherty taught a college comedy writing class years after SCTV. I'll bet the students begged him to do the Count Floyd howl on Halloween.

I've been saying, "Terten, Terten" for almost 40 years now.

"Shrimpkin," Catherine O'hara says!!!!! Ha ha ha ha hah ha! Possibly the funniest line ever delivered in a comedy sketch!!!!! Shrimpkin!!!!!!

@BushcraftingBogan

16 күн бұрын

Obviously you've never heard the Potato Joke.

Catherine & Andrea always worked so well with one another. Quite possibly the best female comedy duo ever.

@goldenagenut

Жыл бұрын

It was the two of them with a bunch of guys and they more than held their own, and they did work so well together - this sketch is a comedic masterpiece. It does make me angry they were paid less - having to keep up with 5-6 talented guys is a challenge but Andrea Martin and Catherine O-Hara were more than up to the task. 👍

@peteranserin3708

8 ай бұрын

They weren't a duo. What are talking about?

@bulkvanderhuge9006

8 ай бұрын

@@peteranserin3708 OMG, you don't have to take everything LITERALLY. He meant when they worked together, like in this SKETCH. They weren't a "Duo" in the sense of Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello, etc, that's not even what the person meant.

@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

6 ай бұрын

Replace the "C", with a "D", jumble it up, a bit and you have "Duont Floyd."

“You think its not scary to be depressed?” LOL

Vampire's howling, that's what makes Floyd so great.

@jondeare

3 жыл бұрын

Hilarious. Totally Hilarious.

His marker-drawn widows peak. XD LOL.

The cape made the shrimpkin much scarier.

Andrea Martin! Wow!

This is the best film that Count Floyd ever got

The level these writers were on was something no one else could get near. Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, and a few select British comedies came close, but most of SCTV still holds up incredibly well today

I can't get over the beauty of Catherine O'Hara.....

@3baxcb

4 жыл бұрын

She certainly was made to look like Liv Ullmann. Guess there wasn't an SCTV member who could resemble Max Von Sydow.

@andrewfrankovic6821

4 жыл бұрын

@@3baxcb Johnny Von LaRue. End of discussion.

@freedapeeple4049

4 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to figure out why I didn't notice how good she looked when I watched the show in the 80s

@BrianBattles

3 жыл бұрын

Both of them....whew

@davestelling

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to add these same thoughts, a warm beauty - for sure...

I remember watching this with my college roommate. He was some type of Literature major and was in hysterics watching this.

I’ve had a massive crush on Catherine O’Hara since the early 1980s

@FiveSigma72

Ай бұрын

Who wouldn't she was gorgeous...those eyes.

@SBCBears

Ай бұрын

Oh, yeah! And her dance in Beetlejuice communicates.

Count, Guy Cab, Floyd R, Sammy Maudlin 😂😂😂 Thanks Joe for all the laughs. U can chill now, hang with LaRue😘

RIP Joe Flaherty. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre and Mel’s Rockpile were probably my favourites.

SCTV CAST WAS ALWAYS MORE LIKEABLE THAN THE SNL CAST

As with all of the SCTV parodies of movies and TV shows, it is obvious that the writers and performers have a very thorough knowledge and appreciation of the original material. They do a magnificent job in seeing the comic possibilities in making fun of Bergman's films, which are almost without exception extremely serious and oftentimes very grim and depressing. Bergman's Hour of the Wolf (title), Cries and Whispers (clocks) and Persona (pretentious head juxtapositions) are most notably parodied here. Pure, unadulterated comedy gold!

@tsartodd

9 жыл бұрын

NicolletIslandSlim i love Ingmar Bergman's films (including the ones parodied in this sketch). but this is still hilarious (in no small part b/c they nailed Bergman's schtick and aesthetic).

@rongeatz

6 жыл бұрын

But the primary film being parodied here is "The Silence."

I love how Martin's character left her lover because of his long naps....however when she went back to ask his forgiveness, she couldn't wake him up......brilliant stuff.....ha ha ha.....

a werewolf howl coming from Dracula - brilliant

This is easily one of SCTV's best sketches. So many excellent Bergman gags. They must have watched the Bergman spoof film "The Dove".

@voraciousreader3341

7 ай бұрын

Since O’Hara was in a small town in Canada and Martin was in a small town in Maine when “The Dove” was released, it’s much more likely that they saw some of Bergman’s films rather than the spoof. The only comparable part is that they’re both in black and white….the women did a much better job sending up the Swedish language and the plots were completely unlike.

True confession, i started watching SCTV over "Fridays" at 16 because I saw this and thought O'Hara and Martin were extremely cute looking in it. Went on to become a huge fan.

Catherine O'Hara looks super cute in this sketch!

I remember almost choking to death laughing when I saw this air originally in '75 or '76. You need to have seen the Bergman films that inspired this parody.

@designerlarry

8 жыл бұрын

+D Kelly,Jr that's right

@lynnmetzner4578

7 жыл бұрын

D Kelly,Jr I saw it in the 70s for certain.

When I saw this back in the day, I thought it was hilarious because of Count Floyd's reaction. Now that I'm a Bergman fan, it's even better.

@scottdoesntmatter4409

9 ай бұрын

One would think a skit like this would turn you off Bergman completely!

@philiphatfield5666

9 ай бұрын

Bergman really overdid the 'anguished' looks, which Catherine nails perfectly here.

5 stars...better than ANYTHING on TV today!!!

@futuristica1710

Ай бұрын

Erm … you don’t get out much.

"You think it's not scary to be depressed?!" Bye Count.

I miss SCTV

I can’t believe after 35 some odd years I’m only just getting the joke,he’s dressed like a vampire but he howls like a werewolf Count Floyd rocks

@robertslydell6990

5 жыл бұрын

Don't be ashamed, it took me years before I figured out Count Floyd was Floyd Robertson working overtime.

@user-hm5zb1qn6g

Ай бұрын

@@robertslydell6990 He. Me too.

This was actually the scariest Monster Chiller Horror Theater I've seen so far! And the funniest. 😄

No one ever explained why a vampire was howling like a werewolf. LOL

@MsPandaRosa

10 жыл бұрын

Well, this is "Whispers of the Wolf" and Count Floyd has to keep our attention somehow, as this film is pretty dead in the water.

@dsfddsgh

10 жыл бұрын

MsPandaRosa Count Floyd was always howling it didn't matter what movie it was.

@MsPandaRosa

10 жыл бұрын

Of course Count Floyd wasn't exactly on top of things as a vampire anyway, I guess he was trying anything remotely scary.

@twirlipofthemists3201

5 жыл бұрын

Late night Canadian UHF vampire.

@mustangjane1610

5 жыл бұрын

@@MsPandaRosa 🤣🤣🤣

Damn, 40 years later and this show is still years ahead of it's time!!

Sometimes its a subtle laff-trac ... and at times you can hear the production crew cracking-up at Joe

A little bit of "The Silence;" a little bit of "Persona." And I love the fake Swedish!

Joe Flaherty was THE most underrated comedian. I grew to admire this guy. I used to think Martin Short was the best but I have second thoughts over the years.

@goldenagenut

Жыл бұрын

Flaherty has a lot of love amongst serious fans but you're right, he should be more popular in general. Hilarious and talented guy!

@amiblueful

9 ай бұрын

They were ALL brilliant. The only one who didn't quite make it as a comedic actor was Harold Ramis, and he didn't go beyond Season 1 on camera. But he had talents elsewhere.

52 years old im laughing my butt off good times

I love how Count Floyd couldn't decide whether he was a vampire or a wolfman! 😂 Ah, such great memories from when I was a kid, loved this show!

Catherine O'Hara is my favorite female comedian ever. And IMO one of the great actresses as well, as illustrated here. Don't think I've ever seen her have a less than wonderful performance in a skit. A truly genius performer and inspired talent.

@donbishop1634

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, and she and Levy have, over the years proven to be a brilliant comedy team. Her performance in Schitts Creek is beyond funny, best in the biz! I just always wished she could have brought Lola Heatherton to the big screen, one of my favorite characters ever!

@davidsigalow7349

8 ай бұрын

She always was the best.

One of my all time fave SCTV skits. TIRTEEN TIRTEEN!

@bobneuro6424

7 жыл бұрын

peter joseph 😝😂😅...what POSSIBLY could tirteen tirteen mean in a hotel 😝⁉️

@robertslydell6990

5 жыл бұрын

I say it all the time to myself when I come across something where thirteen is involved. I keep it to myself, no one around me would get it.

@moviemonster2083

2 жыл бұрын

"Hmm. Shrimpkin."

One of SCTV's best throwaway moments ever:@3:59-@4:18"Hm … Shrimpkin".

Im proud to say that "shrimpkin" has been a part of my lexicon ever since this first aired on TV

This was my favorite of the Monster Chiller Horror Theatre since I had experience as a younger kid with our local scary movie host showing some movies that weren't really horror movies at all and feeling cheated. RIP Joe, you were a great talent and the best Charlton Heston impersonator ever.

They definitely nailed the somber mood and inscrutable style of an Ingmar Bergman film.

@stephenvanwoert2447

3 жыл бұрын

Bergman films make me want to commit suicide, generally. The ligher ones, like "Smiles of a Summer Night," only make me want to think about it.

I haven't seen this in 35 years and It's even funnier now!

@danmseattle975

4 жыл бұрын

SCTV holds up very well.

Catherine O'Hara looks great here.

Lolz i loved sctv....monster chiller horror theatre being one of the best parts!

Layers, lol. There’s the spot-on Bergman parody, which always had me rolling with laughter. And then, I also can’t get the thought out of my head that this was playing to an audience of mostly kids who were expecting a B-movie monster film. First they get “Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Stewardesses”, and then this avant garde arthouse cinema...😂

Monster Chiller Horror Theatre, was anything but....and that was it's *BRILLIANCE!* ....Spoofing film art and making it hysterically funny! ;D

Criterion needs to restore this classic and put it on a double bill with SCENES FROM AN IDIOT'S MARRIAGE.

Best comedy show ever

One of the greatest parodies the group ever did.

This was amazing! As a fan of both Svengoolie and Bergman, these folks were very familiar with the content! SCTV clips are great to experience now that I can find them! Thank you. 🙂

Still funny all these years later. Genius!!

Unforgettable!!! I remember the first time I saw this. Love the "Noo Yawk" - Transylvania accent. Catherine rather looks like Liv, too.

@mikehike596

5 жыл бұрын

I was impressed not only with the physical resemblance, but especially the way in which Ms. O'Hara upturned the center ends of her eyebrows to capture Liv's perpetual "sad" look. Excellent.

One of the best parodies ever … of anything …

my favorite count floyd sketch...

RIP Joe Flaherty

Here in Florida in the 60s, we had a TV channel where the sportscaster also doubled as the Friday night horror host on Shock Theater. He played Shock Armstrong, The All-American Ghoul, wearing a Frankenstein head and doing bits during Universal horror classics. It was genuinely funny.

@Legend813a

Жыл бұрын

Big 13 WTVT Tampa

@marc108

3 ай бұрын

And further south the King bros did similar.. good times for sure

Joe Flaherty was very funny with SCTV.

World's best howling vampire.

My kitten watched this intensely! She swatted at Count Floyd!

2:00 Eugene Levy working at a Hotel.......wait, I've got a wild idea for a show!

Count Floyd is now in the Horror Host Hall of Fame!

Just imagine what a Count Floyd stitch with a movie that parodied Vampyr (1932) or Leonor (1975).

I always enjoyed Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd on SCTV and The Misadventures of Ed Grimley. That was one of his best characters.

Not gonna lie, the language they made up based on Swedish actually sounds amazing.

Awesomely bad and hilarious at the same time!!!!

I know I've heard a few of these Count Floyd bits without the laugh track, and you can sometimes hear the crew cracking up.

"...if that's not so, I'll drink my...blood..ha, ha!"

The midget is right out of "The Silence." But great deal of "Persona" and a smattering of "Cries and Whispers" and "Hour of the Wolf" as well.

RIP Count!

I remember thinking this was so funny when I saw it as a kid in the '70s having no idea that it was a parody of an Ingmar Bergman film. Thanks for posting it; I never thought I would see it again! Yay!

"Leave Ullman!" (LOL)

this video made me laugh like hell

Thank you, TheSecondCityNetwork. I love sketch comedy. Have an excellent day!

Absolute GENIUS.

It scared me right out of my pants.

Cool camera work for something so funny.

those two faces melting together at the end - so scary!!!!!

This is fuckin' brilliant.

Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara were, in my modest opinion, more talented than their male counterparts on this brill show but typically received less air time. The guys seemed to have far less range in their characterizations than did Martin and O'Hara but nonetheless reaped the lion's share of the rewards, to wit: their own series, etc . . . Still, a delightful show to watch. Cheers!

@Peorhum

8 жыл бұрын

+kw19193 The whole cast of SCTV was equally talented in my books

@loyaldude10

7 жыл бұрын

they prob could have gotten more time, but they were all immensely talented. I thought Eugene Levy was the most versatile.

Love the pseudo-Swedish.

So fun. I miss John and Joe … and the whole SCTV gang. I remember rotating the TV antenna to a specific spot almost dead east just to pull in a very snowy version of SCTV late at night out of Canada. My parents were annoyed by all the late night laughter from me and my sister. Catherine and Andrea were hilarious and beautiful. I was in love with both of them. ❤

"I'm getting a lot of letters from you boys and girls saying it stinks"!!! At least it was truthful!!

How could they do those serious face shots without cracking up? True professionals!

Genius, not just for cheap slapstick laughs.

Watching Ingmar Bergman flicks, I am happy to understand them, and more happy to not have the strange world-weary view they express. Give me good old Count Floyd any day! OooooWoooo!

I love how the studio audience fails to laugh at words like "barfin."

@JoeLibby

6 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that the sound editor apparently didn't understand the show's humor and just cut in the laugh track wherever he felt like adding it.

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

The Bergman parody probably would have been better with no laughtrack at all, but there are a lot of subtle jokes in there that just get nothing.

My brother and I used to act this one out when we were kids. We still do!!

Miss you Floyd. This was a great episode.

I'll drink my blood. Brilliant.

Many Soviet movies are like this.Especially silent shots with a look in the camera.

Click thumbs up if you think Count Floyd was scarier than the vampires from Twilight

@captainnerd6452

9 жыл бұрын

Mr. Rogers was scarier than the vampires from Twilight. Mr. Rogers never sparkled...

@bobneuro6424

7 жыл бұрын

He scared my pants, and my g/f's dress right off, for over 8 hours...we hardly slept...just stayed up all night. To make things SCARIER, we watched these episodes with the miracle of SMELL-O-RAMA and used our plastic (not the cheap cardboard type) 3--D glasses. Ohhhhhhhhhhh... Ohhhhhhh.... Ohhhhh... What a night... We even ordered food for delivery from, of course, our nearest BEEF 'N BOOZE. After watching the TERRIFYING Count Floyd episode(s), we took a taxi right to one of Harry's Sex Shops. Hard to believe but, Bobby Bittman was there, dressed incognito, wearing a mask...he had a Snake on his face‼️

@captainnerd6452

7 жыл бұрын

+Robert Melnychuk HOWAYAAAAAH!

@bobneuro6424

7 жыл бұрын

Ohh, dat Count Floyd, AND Dr. Tongue, AND the terrifyingly scarie : Woodie Tobias jR., ...ohhh, those guys were just, just really SCARY..."BLOOD CURDLIN' SCARY". I'm still in therapy...just can't get those...real scary 'things' in dat CLASSIC film..."Death Motel"...WHOA, I JUST scared myself...dat's right, just scared myself just by saying that title of the classic HORROR FLICK- Death Mot_l", see how scared I am, I can't even see or think of the title even just one more time... I had to write the scary film in CODE...which is pretty terrifying when you think about it too... Aoh Aoh Ahooooow... Don't forget kids...get your parents to CERTIFY those CHEQUES, if you want Count Floyd to send you an authentic, real good pair of 3-D glasses...make dat cheque out for...ohhhh, lets say, $27, I mean $38 Bucks‼️😱😳😵😳

@fredflintstone1485

6 жыл бұрын

Not scarier necessarily , but certainly more entertaining ! :)

Simply Genius