It's 2am and you don't know the name of tonight's Money Movie.

#ReasonsToIgnoreAPhoneCall
#HashTagGames
#SCTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rlHJKsMumo

Useless information: I have been watching #SCTV since I was about 10, and literally never realized until this weekend that "Johnny La Rue" was supposed to be a parody of "Jack La Lanne."

Rue = Lane
Johnny = Jack

How did I live this long without cracking that puzzle? (Also? HE'S NOT GAY.)

After you've read the GeorgeCarlin anecdote, make sure to go read the piece on Toronto's Second City comedy troupe that Creative! Queer!! Autistic!!! links to. Especially if you were a fan of SCTV.

#comedy #SecondCity #Canada #SCTV #GeorgeCarlin

https://neurodifferent.me/@n69n/110601923659664851

I love them.

#SCTV

https://torontolife.com/culture/untold-stories-from-the-early-years-of-second-city-the-group-that-changed-comedy/

Polaroids of #CatherineOHara 's #SCTV Wardrobe.

https://torontolife.com/culture/untold-stories-from-the-early-years-of-second-city-the-group-that-changed-comedy/

" #RickMoranis : I was a big #GeorgeCarlin fan. How could I not be? But there came a point where I saw him on a talk show, and he was reading off cards. I had a feeling I could look like him, so I did an impression of him reading off notes and telling lazy jokes. Years went by and I was at an awards show. Across the aisle was Carlin, sitting there. We looked at each other, and he just said, “Brutal. Brutal, man. Brutal.” I sort of shrugged and gestured about how much I love him. But I never really met him. Years later, after he passed away, I spoke to his daughter, #KellyCarlin . She wanted to use the #SCTV clips in a show she was putting together. I told her, “Look, I want you to understand that, believe it or not, that was really done out of reverence.” She said, “No, you don’t understand. It had a profound effect on him. He wasn’t aware that he was really being lazy. He was unhappy and wasn’t doing the kind of work that he wanted to be doing. And your impression caused him to change his approach.” God, am I glad I spoke to her."

https://torontolife.com/culture/untold-stories-from-the-early-years-of-second-city-the-group-that-changed-comedy/

" #MartinShort : I waited so long to audition because I was afraid. The idea of improvising comedy was daunting to me. I liked doing musicals and plays. I always saw myself more as an actor than as someone in comedy. I joined in 1977, when I replaced #JohnCandy in a show. Instead of playing a scene like John played it, it was like, “Why don’t I just do it as, oh…Columbo?” They wanted you to play to your strengths.

#CatherineOHara : It was my university of comedy: writing, character development, thinking on your feet and learning about scene structure. All of the lessons I learned there, I’m still working on every day. They threw out a lot of references in Chicago. They loved to drop philosophers’ names. Or authors’. In Toronto, we were just trying to crack people up. For us, it was about characters: people we met on the subway, our family members. Our scenes were more about the dynamics between human beings. It was more emotional. We weren’t as well read.

#JoeFlaherty : We were just trying to be funny! Get laughs! In order for the audience to accept us, I wanted them to leave the theatre having laughed a lot."

#SCTV

https://torontolife.com/culture/untold-stories-from-the-early-years-of-second-city-the-group-that-changed-comedy/

Happy birthday to Joe Flaherty, born today in 1941 in Pittsburgh!
Eventually moving to Toronto to establish the Toronto Second City, he rose to fame with SCTV.
He continued to act after the show ended, including in Freaks and Geeks.
Nominated for nine Emmys, he has won twice.

#canada #tv #sctv #history #histodon #histodons

Bones, Rourke, and Carlin...Thomas, Levy, and Moranis. #SCTV

Happy birthday to Dave Thomas, born in 1949 in St. Catharines, Ontario!
Rising to fame on SCTV for his many characters including Doug McKenzie, he has won an Emmy Award and two Junos. He has also been nominated for a Grammy.
In 2020, he received the Order of Canada.

#canada #history #sctv #acting #canadian #histodon #histodons

Joe Flaherty is currently on The Best Show live right now. #SCTV #JoeFlaherty #Freaksandgeeks #TheBestShow #TomScharpling

https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4life

05 Walter Cronkite's Brain [079] [SCTV - Seasons 4 & 5] - Invidious https://invidious.esmailelbob.xyz/watch?v=7VBUFokTaoA #Canada #SCTV

#spacex #starship #sctv
It blowed up real good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkvD7-u7y8

This week, a Canadian court declares “flipping the bird” is a “God given right”, and the guys get to know the wonderful world of Sid and Marty Krofft.

#Drakulas #SXSW #EvilDeadRise #BruceCampbell #celebs #StarWars #adnansyed #Canada #SCTV #SNL #MartinShort #EugeneLevy #Quebec #flippingthebird #truecrime #middlefinger #freespeech #politics #poltergeist2 #SidandMartykrofft #puppets #HRPufnstuf #BelaLugosi #theBeatles #McDonalds #sixflags #lidsville #CharlesNelsonReilly #psychedelia #thebugaloos

Monster kid reacts typically to watching #SCTV

#Monsterdon

This week, new episodes of Seinfeld appear on Twitch…thanks to AI, radio signals from space may have technosignatures indicating alien life, and Mike tells the tale of artist David Huggins and his torrid extraterrestrial love affair.

#theHighwaymen #johnnycash #tilatequila #sctv #SantaFe #StarTrek #STTNG #colmmeany #Seinfeld #nothingforever #Twitch #ai #classictv #JackNicholson #radio #seti #space #aliens #extraterrestrial #vice #marsattacks #ufo #DavidHuggins #paranormal #alienabduction

@juanfr Not a free budgie?

#Canada #SCTV

Battle of the PBS Stars - #SCTV https://youtu.be/q-2JsACs1pw

A Tubb of SCTV https://albert71292.livejournal.com/1734768.html?utm_source=twsharing&utm_medium=social& #tapeandrecordshowenterprises #ernesttubb #trse #audiocassettes #sctv #digitization #1990s

#Earworm in my brain #today: "Gone gone gone she's been gone so long/ she's been gone gone gone so long."

A quick Google search tells me the song is My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone), a 1981 single by the Canadian band #chilliwack

I am certain I never heard that single.

But upon further reflection, I did hear a cover in 1982, and thank you YouTube for letting me delight in it again:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZaHfWqmC18A&feature=shares&t=29

#SCTV