Norm Macdonald, Mike Myers and countless other famous comedians and comic actors hail from America’s neighbor in the “Great White North,” Canada. From 1976 to 1984, one of the best showcases of ...
Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness. Flaherty, who ...
Though he worked steadily into the second decade of this century, Joe Flaherty, who died Monday at 82, will be remembered for two series: the Canadian sketch comedy “SCTV,” which sneaked onto American ...
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
SCTV is one of the most influential sketch shows in the history of comedy. You may not have seen it, but you know its cast members and it developed an outsized influence as the cast went to Hollywood.
Jimmy Kimmel will host an 'SCTV' cast reunion in May in Toronto, footage from which will anchor the doc. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The reunion will anchor the documentary about the cult TV ...
That comedy attracts miserable, persecuted people is, by now, conventional wisdom cum cliché. Crack any book about the history of humour and one’s bound to trip over long-recycled theories about why ...
Moranis will join Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short and Dave Thomas in the comedy special to be directed by Martin Scorsese. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief ...
TORONTO — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness.