The SCTV Podcast is now on the air: anchor.fm/sctvpod

@francescaa8331

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for this upload! Algorithm put you in my feed because I've been enjoying old SCTV episodes lately. I see you have a podcast, looks like you have some pretty good guests.

RIP Joe Flaherty. You will always be a great landmark of comedy

@dukecraig2402

11 күн бұрын

Guy Caballero, one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV was when he jumped up out of that wheelchair and took off running.

I started watching SCTV back in the mid-70s, when it was produced in Toronto at the old Global TV studio. That was before the show had ties to NBC on American TV. I think the show still holds its own even in 2023. Another overlooked comedy show from Canada was Kids in the Hall which ran for a decade on CBC.

@chrisbarrett8377

Күн бұрын

Kids in the Hall had 5 seasons but they were all excellent!

The actors were fantastic in this show.

The actual commercials included fit so well....They were carrying the program into a meta-reality....

@johnheart6890

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree! When the real commercial started I assumed that it was a sketch. It’s difficult for audiences today to understand the TV world of the late 70s and early 80s. SCTV was very skilled at parodying All aspects of television. It was the television of their time the late 70s and early 80s. If you’re from that time you immediately can get the joke that they were going for.

@francescaa8331

9 ай бұрын

Yes indeed.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

7 ай бұрын

@@francescaa8331 You're Coast Guard Auxiliary, aren't you. I do Talent for Gary Collins, so let me see if I can book you.

The memories this brings back are incredible.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

7 ай бұрын

I am sure they have no credibility.

Light years funnier than SNL could ever be!

@canaisyoung3601

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but I still like both shows.

@garybeauchamp3623

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree, the most under rated comedy show ever.

@christopherwelch136

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@gregv79

Жыл бұрын

I never watch SNL reruns, and all 40 whatever seasons are on hulu.

@beckygottschall7361

Жыл бұрын

Enjoy the show and the old commercials.

For a moment there I thought Rick Moranis was doing a perfect Geraldo impression.

Edith Prickley hosts the "Mating Game" totally hysterical. I remember all of these fantastic and very funny SCTV clips way funnier than SNL.

40-some years ago (!) when I was 19 I always made it a point to be home to watch SCTV. I'd come home pretty high and I was afraid I'd hurt myself I laughed so hard at some of the skits.

@reelincoln7747

11 ай бұрын

Same here

@francescaa8331

9 ай бұрын

Yup. I was just a few years older, but same thing.

@bmon4095

9 ай бұрын

I’m right there with you on that one man. I can remember watching the great white north and my mother asking me “Robert? What’s wrong with your eyes?“. Tombstone eyes, giggles, some really great trips.

@egreenbery

Ай бұрын

And it's still great to watch !

A rabbi ,a chef, and a Scotsman in a kilt walked into a bar.....🤣

SCTV News. It doesn’t get any better than this😂

Greatest comedy show ever!

Feb1981, just got home, 17 years old and just lit a joint and now I'm watching SCTV.

I have seen so many real-life Edith Prickleys. Andrea Martin is great.

@CasperLCat

2 жыл бұрын

When you’re a boy, every female teacher over 30 is kind of an Edith Prickley. You can’t imagine them ever being truly young and sexy, so if they talk that way, it’s kind of gruesome. Which is funny, in hindsight.

@michelpage4877

2 жыл бұрын

Sings like Ethel Merman.

@befdoglover1

Жыл бұрын

She reminds me of a character Mary Scheer from Mad TV would do. I thought it was her at first.

@rachel112263

9 ай бұрын

There is NO ONE like Edith Prickley. She's my idol. 😂

OMG! I used to watch this back in the late 1970's in Ohio late night weekends. Brings back memories and I thought these actors were hilarious! Gene Levy was my favorite. Thanks for posting!!!

Edith Prickley seems like the kind of gal that's flattened some grass in her time.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

7 ай бұрын

Where the leopards curl up for the night, there's Edith, babby

@satchice9102

7 ай бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Edith's more a Cougar than a Leopard.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

7 ай бұрын

@@satchice9102 Yes, Ms. Prickley can change spots with the best of 'em!

@HomesteadViewin

Ай бұрын

Pfffffttttt. HA! (As Edith would say)

these vintage bumpers are precious nuggets of history

The commercials add to the comedy.

Loved this. Got off work at 10 pm. Turned this on and ate my reheated dinner.

Love this show and it's so great to see it again. Bob and Doug, Bill Needle and all the rest,thanks for putting these together, regards Scott-Peace.

I'm a Canadian who used to watch SCTV every week(I'm 60) and STILL think it's superior to SNL. I couldn't always convince people of this. It has legs,staying power that that other show often doesn't have.

@brianarbenz1329

Жыл бұрын

I always have liked SCTV. I absolutely love Kids in the Hall. We U.S.-ians thank you.

@ld393

Жыл бұрын

Kids in the hall the best ! 😂

@francescaa8331

9 ай бұрын

Yes. Look at the talent! The primary actors all went on to be so successful in movies. I'm American and think Kids in the Hall and SCTV were epic comedy achievements. Thank you Canada.

@josephsummer777

9 ай бұрын

SNL doesn’t hold a candle to SCTV

@TT-fq7pl

8 ай бұрын

@@josephsummer777 It's not even a debate, to be honest. SCTV is much more creative and much more hilarious.

Andrea was Edith Prickley. Loved her ❤️

Bill Needle psychologically destroying the Travolta (?) and Bo Derek takeoffs was hilarious. You get the impression that someone in the writers room was having fun there.

These guys get funnier every year.

@bryede

9 ай бұрын

We didn't know how good we had it.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

7 ай бұрын

@@bryede Letterman took it all from Bill Needle.

Just as funny as it was when I was a kid.

Like a Time Machine with the commercials, and that Elvis one was perfect, I thought it was a skit the way they cut it when it was becoming just big words that no trinket off TV could live up too.

This was the first show that I first saw John Candy back in the 70's.

Can't tell the WPEC ads from the SCTV ad spoofs.

Love having the local US TV station parts too; cant tell where the parody ends and the reality starts.

This to me was the best intro music

@egreenbery

Ай бұрын

I love it !

Man I miss these days

The memories this brings back are great. One of the odder ones is that I had a girlfriend who lived in the apartment building in the opening credits from which they threw all those TV sets.

@egreenbery

Ай бұрын

That must have been in Canada, EH ?!?

@Argonaut121

Ай бұрын

@@egreenbery Toronto

Wish they would show reruns of this on sat nights on NBC instead if SNL which is dead like tonight show !

The topic is- “why are parking lots so small at donut shops?”

@RideAcrossTheRiver

7 ай бұрын

Peter's Doughnuts - ten tables and, like, three spots!

Oh, that Walter Cronkite.

@RatPfink66

5 ай бұрын

Dave Thomas was a master impressionist in that he could _stay funny_ while doing all those impressions. He also was great at voice mimicry, which Candy and Flaherty weren't.

SCTV is the inspiration for our show ❤🎉

Andrea and Catherine O'Hara and Robin Duke are 3 of the funniest women on the planet

@VHScape

9 ай бұрын

Hey, I'm getting an unusual amount of traffic on this episode...did somebody link to this? Thanks, Michael Delaney.

@salobrena6442

9 ай бұрын

@@VHScape no I went looking for Andrea Martin online because I could not remember her name.. pulled up cast sctv.. down the rabbit hole to here..lol

@VHScape

9 ай бұрын

@@salobrena6442 It must be the algorithm. Andrea is in every episode of SCTV, happily, so you can't miss her.

Loved watching SCTV!!

Hell I'd watch "Starting Out".

@gdparry2727

Жыл бұрын

Beats all the fawning "interviews" you get now

Between two ferns long before!

Oh my, I haven't seen this since I was 10 - This use to be my favorite show to watch on Saturday nights.

9:01-great things were happening at the University of Southern California Berkeley. 😆😆😆

@salyluz6535

Жыл бұрын

Where’s that, now? Is it near Melonville? 🤔

@RideAcrossTheRiver

7 ай бұрын

@@salyluz6535 Southern California Berkeley man almost spends the night in jail

Bill Needle's cynicism was great.

All uniquely talented. Tony Rosato was, for me, uniquely unique.

@mlongpre100

Жыл бұрын

he looks like a guy who is just waiting to lose his mind

@wmbrown6

2 ай бұрын

@@mlongpre100 - Indeed, later in his life, he did lose his mind.

@egreenbery

Ай бұрын

He got the SNL job because of SCTV !

Lovin' this!💕❤️💗

Florida jam sounds legit !

Thank you !!

Love the commercials

Still waiting for my Elvis record.

None of these people will ever amount to anything and live sketch comedy will never last.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

7 ай бұрын

Aw you're loaded eh.

@egreenbery

Ай бұрын

I love sarcasm !

Too Funny.

Funny how close SCTV was to the real ads. The fat buster scam could easily have been an SCTV bit.

😭🥶great show.

Robin Duke was hilarious 😂

@egreenbery

Ай бұрын

She got the SNL job because of SCTV. Even if it wasn't quite as good as SCTV at that time, it probably paid much better.

man of the hour geraldo rivera- ohhhh brother.

@kathleenking47

9 ай бұрын

I like the mid Atlantic accent with announcers

I loved when they did the miracle worker

Total pros. So few cutaways.

The very early years (like this) were the best.

The Best!!

Love Bill Needle!! 🤣

@hardlines4

Жыл бұрын

@kaw boy Ahhhh that’s pretty sharp 😁

@fefferryerr1818

10 ай бұрын

@@hardlines4bill needle had me in stitches.

@andrewfrankovic6821

9 ай бұрын

And a month from now you'll be in an ER dying from toxic shock due to dirty thread . . .@@fefferryerr1818

Watched this way back in the 1980's

Sounds like Edith Prickley is obsessed with Parnell Roberts!!! She gushes over him with his name or his Trapper John character in all the prizes she mentioned.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Edith is my queen.

It MUST have something to do with Canada beer being so much stronger. Hooray!

@2:29 For dog's sake, look out for the MANATEES! Don't hurt the lovely cows of the sea.

Real funny!!!👍😁❤

Comedy show ranked: 1) Monty Python's Flying Circus 2) Mad TV 3) SCTV 4) SNL 5) CNN Nightly News

IN THAT OLD VOODOO I CALL LUUUUV, I COULD STAY AWAY BUT WAT WUD I DOOOOOO

Edith Prickley channeling Pee Wee Herman @18:40 ! Great stuff!

Bonus appearance by the real life Earl Camembert at 23:55!

"Davrons or something". Lol Darvons.

I remember the Chinese Olympics when I was young, something you would never forget. I guess it is not appropriate today but wow, those were the days.

Andrea Martin is 🔥

Did they ever find the killer?

Sweet 👍

The thumbnail looks like Bill Gates shortly after he formed Microsoft.

Hit pause when recording in-between commercials. Found that out, our family was WOW. More tape space!😂

@VHScape

9 күн бұрын

Wow, negative comment.

Bill Gates in the thumbnail... Had no idea he was on SCTV.

andrea martin. love.

@RatPfink66

5 ай бұрын

sometimes i daydream it's 1982 or so and i'm on a hot date with Andrea, making her do all her characters. Pirini meeting up for dinner, Prickley over drinks, and Libby Wolfson back at my place.

LOVE that crummy map with our smaller neighbor made even smaller. We're not drawn correctly either.

@tomkerruish2982

8 ай бұрын

Might big talk from a hat...😂 Seriously, I love that the reason for the GWN spots is that CBC regs required a certain amount of local-focused content.

Will u b posting more

Top 3 sketch tv shows, in no particular order, SCTV, Chappelle and kids n the hall. Tell me I'm wrong. P.S. HOW ARE YA!!!!!!

@prometheanubermensch130

3 жыл бұрын

and I'm not Canadian

@russellblake6471

3 жыл бұрын

@@prometheanubermensch130 I'm more of a Skip Bittman fan...

@prometheanubermensch130

3 жыл бұрын

@@russellblake6471 - 100%

@canaisyoung3601

3 жыл бұрын

My list of sketch shows that are better than Saturday Night Live are: this show, Fridays, In Living Color, Chappelle's Show, and Key and Peele. I do have Kids in the Hall as an honorable mention.

@russellblake6471

3 жыл бұрын

@@canaisyoung3601 Fridays was very underrated. I used to watch it here on the local ABC affiliate when I was growing up but it was only on for a few years. One of the more memorable characters was the little boy played by a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards who always used to destroy things in the midst of playing with his toys. Larry David was also involved in Fridays, so it wasn't surprising to see many of Richards' former Fridays co-stars make appearances throughout the run of Seinfeld. Mary Edith Burrell played the mother of a little boy always getting bad vibes from Jerry; Melanie Chartoff played the comedy club barmaid that George Costanza dated for some time (The Fire episode); and Bruce Mahler played the rabbi always horning in on Elaine Benes' personal affairs.

Haven’t seen this since it was new.

Dave Thomas as Phil Needle.

Spoof of The Dating Game

There are as many TV commercials as there are SCTV skits

@VHScape

3 жыл бұрын

Go to the youtube complaint department for that issue.

@timhiltonsuperstar

3 жыл бұрын

@@VHScape hahahahahhaahahahahahahhahaahahahah

@nanettegauthier8239

3 жыл бұрын

It's a truly authentic representation of watching it 35 or so years ago.

@labluvver

3 жыл бұрын

Hard to tell they were not SCTV bits at first.

@carljacobson7156

3 жыл бұрын

@@labluvver That's what I thought too - I was like 'Wow, SCTV was great about creating Spoof Commercials'....until I realized that they WERE actual Commercials!! It seemed like almost half of this video was Commercials.

Robin's beautiful!

@nemovalerius185

3 жыл бұрын

I liked her look on the Mating Game. Isn't she also a Pittsburgher just like Joe Flaherty?

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

"Kennels, Kenneth! There's two of us comin' home tonight!"

@HubertofLiege

Жыл бұрын

Looks familiar…

@marks.3303

9 ай бұрын

@@nemovalerius185 She grew up just outside Toronto. Went to high school with Catherine O'Hara.

Bill Needle, the original Debbie Downer.

❤

Tony ROSATO 😁👍🏻

@VHScape

9 ай бұрын

Hey, I uploaded this episode, it is getting a ton of traffic, did somebody link to it? Thanks.

In Minnesota we have always pronounced it Oreh-gan-o and not Oregon-o. Not saying we are right but to hear it pronounced that way here is weird.

@WindTurbineSyndrome

Жыл бұрын

It's Italian I think your pronouncement is correct

@andrewfrankovic6821

9 ай бұрын

oHH, they were talking about a spice? I thought iT was a strange form of origami.

Two kinds of potatoes.

😎

Robin Duke and Tony Rosato both ended up on Saturday Night Live. For one season. And they were given horrible sketches.

@VHScape

7 күн бұрын

Robin stayed on for another season or two, with popular characters such as Wendy Whiner, and Mrs. T. Tony exited after 1 season.

Bill Needle reminds me of Tom Snyder..

@RatPfink66

5 ай бұрын

Snyder was complex but controlled, Needle was a f***in _mess._ He just had his guts out in every bit. Easily the meanest character on SCTV, considering Karl Bildenhausen only appeared once.

Interesting, no John Candy or Martin Short. MS must have moved to SNL and JC was making movies. Also in the commercials John Walsh was not known as host of America’s Most Wanted.

@RatPfink66

5 ай бұрын

Marty was the most character driven of the troupe. And most all original characters. It was a new era when they put him on. A genius.

Melon Vale valve and almost spent the night in jail

Leave the commercials next time.

I'm Luella's brother Eddie labangho ,I'm still single ? ❤