Catch These Men

Tom Hanks and Norm Macdonald killed on "Celebrity Jeopardy" on last week's SNL with Will Ferrell.

We do all recognize that "Celebrity Jeopardy" is a ripoff of SCTV's "High-Q," right?

Johnny LaRue's Crane Shot...In Color

The Onion AV Club posts an interesting and favorable review of "Polynesiantown," the brilliant SCTV NETWORK 90 episode that inspired the title of this blog.

No, It's Not SCTV

But Joe Flaherty does a killer Ed O'Neill in a clip from his sitcom MANIAC MANSION, which airs during this appearance on LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN in 1991.

Systems Are Go, Man, Go

In case you haven't seen OCEAN'S 13 yet, I thought you might be interested in seeing the original film from the '60s upon which it was based. Yep, MAUDLIN'S 11 starring Sammy Maudlin, Bobby Bittman, Bill Needle, William B. Williams and Skip Bittman. Here's the first few minutes, and you can search YouTube for the rest.

"That niece is nice."



"El Oh Eleven!"

Still Alive And Still Funny

When SCTV was cooking, no sketch comedy show was funnier. One of the show's greatest bits was this promo for PERRY COMO: STILL ALIVE, in which Eugene Levy took Como's super-relaxed persona to a new extreme.



The bit near the end where Levy taps out the rhythm with his index finger is genius.

Truman Capotay?

If you have five minutes to kill, you could do a lot worse than to watch this classic SCTV game show parody. It was written by Catherine O'Hara, now earning rave reviews for her performance in Christopher Guest's new film FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. She plays "Margaret Meehan" in the sketch, and says she enjoyed writing these game show sketches because it gave her the opportunity to perform with the entire cast.

Eugene Levy kicks ass here as the increasingly flustered host, and the other parts are played by SCTV regulars John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin. I believe the sixth panelist is played by one of the writers; Rick Moranis would fill the spot when he later became a regular.

The sketch appears to be a takeoff of the venerable weekend afternoon quiz program G.E. COLLEGE BOWL, but it's more likely based on a Canadian series called REACH FOR THE TOP.

"The Beatles?"