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Some of the Count Floyd stuff you find on Youtube isn't from SCTV, but from the animated Completely Mental Adventures of Ed Grimley, for which Flaherty provided live action clips.
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Velvis wrote:Some of the Count Floyd stuff you find on Youtube isn't from SCTV, but from the animated Completely Mental Adventures of Ed Grimley, for which Flaherty provided live action clips.
Yeah, I saw some of those searching for Count Floyd and Joe Flaherty. My first guess they weren't from SCTV is Flaherty looked a little older.
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Just remembered a few more:
The time Guy Caballero, in a moment of total exasperation, simply got up out of his wheelchair and walked across the room to get something.
The Evita commercial parody, Indira (Andrea Martin) with Joe Flaherty as Slim Whitman.
Political commentator Bill Needle. What an asshole!
The time Guy Caballero, in a moment of total exasperation, simply got up out of his wheelchair and walked across the room to get something.
The Evita commercial parody, Indira (Andrea Martin) with Joe Flaherty as Slim Whitman.
Political commentator Bill Needle. What an asshole!
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back in April, Charlie O. wrote:I wish "Al Peck's Used Cars" was on YouTube in watchable quality - one of their funniest commercials, I think.
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Charlie O. wrote:"Al Peck's Used Cars"
I'd forgotten all about that one. It just reminded me of Tex & Edna Boil's Organ Emporium, which was more disturbing than funny, especially once Tex walked offstage and a loud gunshot could be heard. Edna was Edith Prickley's sister, I think.
There was an episode I only saw once. It was an old B&W cowboy movie, done up What's Up, Tiger Lily? style. Anyone else remember it?
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zoomboogity wrote:There was an episode I only saw once. It was an old B&W cowboy movie, done up What's Up, Tiger Lily? style. Anyone else remember it?
I do! On one of the DVD sets, there's some group interview done at a comedy festival, and one of the audience members asks them about that one. Turns out they didn't actually do it - I forget what the story was, exactly, but I guess they were short material for one of the episodes and somebody they knew had done this thing, so they put it in.
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Finally been treating myself to Vol 3 of the Shout Factory box sets.
By spring 1982, we're in the Martin Short era and the 90 minute format is taking its toll. Still a funny show, but too much padding in the form of the frankly time-eating soap opera send-ups and musical guests make this set less than essential.
I missed a lot of this period because I was just turning 18 as a senior in high school and I (finally) had better things to do on weekend nights than stay in and watch TV.
So, it doesn't approach the Harold Ramis period (what does?), but there are still some laughs.
I gather Shout Factory has abandoned the campaign. Shame, I'd LOVE to have complete DVDs of the earlier seasons, especially the half-hour shows.
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Funny, the third and fourth boxes were actually better than I remembered them being from when I saw those shows back in the day (especially the fourth, which I thought would be a complete dog). True, Martin Short could be overbearing, and I missed O'Hara, Thomas, and Moranis when they left (especially O'Hara, whom I had a big crush on), but there was still some good material.
I actually thought Days Of The Week was a pretty excellent parody.
I actually thought Days Of The Week was a pretty excellent parody.
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Charlie O. wrote:I actually thought Days Of The Week was a pretty excellent parody.
I'm enjoying it more now than I did then, but it still strikes me as padding, although well-done padding.
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Having watched these, as well as all the early SNL box sets and some of the Your Show Of Shows/Caesar's Hour sets, has led me to think that 90 minutes really is not the optimum length for a weekly comedy show, even with musical guests. It makes sense that it would be hard to keep up any consistency of comedic brilliance at that rate of output.
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Velvis wrote:I think Season Three was the end of it, apart from the Cinemax season, right? (The Cinemax show had only Flaherty, Levy, Martin, and Short).
I've never even heard of that. Sounds depressing.
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It wasn't too bad. The major throughline was a a series of silent Tom Mix style westerns starring Levy and his sidekick, Cheap-laughs Johnson (Short). Around that time Dave Thomas had a short-lived network variety show. Hardcore fans such as myself had to take what was given.
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Velvis wrote:It wasn't too bad. The major throughline was a a series of silent Tom Mix style westerns starring Levy and his sidekick, Cheap-laughs Johnson (Short). Around that time Dave Thomas had a short-lived network variety show. Hardcore fans such as myself had to take what was given.
I must have been away at school by the time that stuff aired, probably for the best, it sounds like.
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That was, in part, a parody of an actual feminist Off-Broadway musical, I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road.
I do wonder sometimes, watching these shows, how many things like that would fly over the heads of anyone born after, say, 1966 - or anyone not from North America. (I'm sure there are still references in Monty Python's Flying Circus that elude me.)
I do wonder sometimes, watching these shows, how many things like that would fly over the heads of anyone born after, say, 1966 - or anyone not from North America. (I'm sure there are still references in Monty Python's Flying Circus that elude me.)
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Charlie O. wrote:That was, in part, a parody of an actual feminist Off-Broadway musical, I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road.
I do wonder sometimes, watching these shows, how many things like that would fly over the heads of anyone born after, say, 1966 - or anyone not from North America. (I'm sure there are still references in Monty Python's Flying Circus that elude me.)
I actually think that SCTV is pretty intuitive comedy. I believe that the approach they took provided the basis for a whole and unique subgenre. This is Spinal Tap always struck me as being SCTV-esque. Same with, of course, Best in Show. It's comedy that perhaps does rely on some pop cultural background as shared with an audience. But, ultimately, it's that absurdist core that provides the real payoff, at least for me. And I think absurdity is what really appeals, and trascends what's actually being referenced.
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