The best impersonations I've ever seen are generally from SCTV. This is no exception..

Pure gold Flaherty is genius in his delivery.

Came here just to see the guy playing the Bach Brandenburg Concerto(!) theme at the end a la Doc Severinsen...:)) Did NOT remember what an incredible job Joe Flaherty did as Buckley...!

EXCELLENT! Catherine O'Hara was an awesome Jane Fonda, too!!

@hd-xc2lz

23 күн бұрын

Nailed the voice.

Oh good grief, THIS is SO funny. I thought it really WAS Buckly at the beginning...this must be SCTV>....I LOVED that show, WAY back in the day......LOL

Simply brilliant. Unequaled by anything on SNL.

Short and sweet and hilarious! I can just imagine an SNL version of this. Would have dragged on forever and been about as funny as a toothache

Met Joe Flaherty once in a restaurant...and all I could think of was this impression and Count Floyd. Very nice fellow...

Great stuff. The funny thing is, Buckley, who was quite conservative, did have far left guests on sometimes. People like Black Panther leader Huey Newton and gay beatnik Anarchist poet Alan Ginsburg. And, for the most part, he treated them with a great deal of respect. So refreshing compared to the Fox style of interviewing that became popular in the 1980s and has only gotten worse since then.

@richrol58

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget his knock-down dragout with Gore Vidal...!! He just couldn't keep his composure for that one, though...

@michaelm6948

8 ай бұрын

@@richrol58That wasn't on Firing Line. The blowup with Vidal was as a co-commentator on the ABC News coverage of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Vidal had called Buckley a proto fascist and WFB returned fire and went overboard.

@milascave2

Ай бұрын

@@richrol58 Well, yes, they made a movie about that series of debates. They had been poking at each other, but finally, Gore Vidal called Buckley a "Fascist" and Buckley called him a "Queer" (which was accurate, but more of a slur at the time, before it was reclaimed.) when asked what he had said, he repeated it, speaking more slowly. That is not one of the examples of him treating his left leaning guests with respect, though.

This is amazing

I love how the theme music plays at the end, and it turns out to be the moderator playing live.....

Great. I have not seen this in decades. Have you the full clip? There was another part I seem to remember as part of the Battle of the PBS stars episode.

these 4 perfected those personas flawlessly. Down to the pissed off lackey greenfield throwing a tantrum, then relegated to closing the show on Buckley's fav composer.

Brilliant

Jane Fonda wanting to join a conservative movement ? Surely William F. Buckley didn't have that much persuasion on her.

God Rest Ye, Merry Joe Flagherty!!! What a BRILLIANT talent and what a brilliant cast! I LIVE FOR THEM!! (I'm gonna bear all their children!! Haaaaa! )

She's got that haircut Kramer loves

I'll look it up. Have you seen the Firing Line skit with the singer Meat Loaf played by John Candy ?

Jeez ppl this is a hilarious bit not political lighten up

Lol the slamming of the papers

Catherine O'Hara looks incredible as a redhead!

NO, NO, NO, It would be very gravely unconstituaional!!!!

Um, you realize this is a clip from SCTV, right?

the comments are funnier than the bit .

@danielscissorhands

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, amazing that some people think this is real. Amazingly stupid that is. Mind you, they are good impressions. :)

WHY DID Buckly sit WAY WAY WAY back and look sort of down at people? DId he have a back problem????

@danielscissorhands

6 жыл бұрын

I always wondered that too.

@richrol58

5 жыл бұрын

He wanted them to look straight up his hairy nostrils..

@joshmay817

2 ай бұрын

Affectation of superiority

Malachi Martin , that would’ve been an interesting interview. Yikes !

For those who are too young to appreciate the context, a helpful hint: this is why you hate your parents.

Martin Short should be a Bazzilionare. But in this world Larry the Cable Guy is. IDIOCRACY

SCTV - Wm F. Buckley & Meatloaf

No she hasn't always been a born again Christian. You don't seem to know much about Jane Fonda along with all those other things you know so little about. She was over 60 when she became a Christian. Now I don't know if she is a true believer but then it isn't my task to forgive her. End the end we shall all answer for our sins and find out on that day who is right and wrong.

No treason is in the Constitution and that is what I would arrest her for. Maybe you should reread the Constitution too.

You don't seem to know anything about socialism or the fact it is incompatible with Christianity. You don't seem to know much about Jesus either. There is a book called the Bible you can go look up and read about Jesus.

Yeah well I read the Bible front to back more then once and there is no democratic socialism in it. Socialism isn't democratic or even just. See maybe you need to go reread the Bible again. Democratic Socialism is a stupid term.

hahahahaha that is so funny. Jesus wasn't a socialist. If you know what socialists are then you would know he wasn't one.

I also read the Holy Bible and Jesus Christ and his apostles , according to the Holy Bible, actually practiced democratic socialism by sharing all of their belonging. So do not force or order me to believe in something that you really like. I choose to vote for whatever I want to vote for and Democratic Socialism is not a stupid term!!!!

@abcde-ji6md

3 жыл бұрын

There's nothing Democratic about Socialism. Socialism must always be imposed on others by force, Pol Pot bloody killing field style.

Jane Fonda has been and always was a born-again Christian!!!