Catherine O'Hara Does Her Favorite Impressions And Talks Home Alone | Carson Tonight Show

Catherine O'Hara Does Her Favorite Impressions And Talks Home Alone | Carson Tonight Show
Original Airdate: 11/15/1990
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[@Gilded-girl]

She’s such a talent. She did go on to marry that boyfriend in 92 - so not long after this interview. They had 2 sons and are still married. Very glad that worked out for her.

[@Nico-sb3fb]

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[@chrisfreeman9960]

Thanks. Glad to know that. She really was funny on SCTV. So was the whole cast.

[@Dellparks3]

@@chrisfreeman9960what about the home alone tv edit

[@jodylivengood4061]

Lucky guy. I've always thought she was hot

[@bo2720]

Catherine O'Hara is probably one of the most underrated actors of all time. She can act, dance and sing. But not only sing. She can sing in all different voices and inflections and accents even ! And make it sound good. She deserves ALL the awards

[@hijodelaisla275]

What is her rating and what do you believe it should be?

[@Dellparks3]

@@hijodelaisla275is Catherine O’Hara in a home alone deleted scene and home alone tv edit on home alone bet version

[@NHRebelsthoughts]

What a Beauty

[@markmarsh27]

Catherine O'Hara tripped and stumbled into me late in the evening at a huge New Year's Eve Gala in Toronto 40 years ago. ... I was about 18, she was drunk, apologetic and charming AS HELL!

[@michaelallport5816]

That's marvellous. I always suggest to prospective brides to take their boyfriends out one time to get them drunk. You'll find out the true guy.

[@southlondon86]

Was she fine as hell sir?

[@braydenfletcher8159]

She was always my favourite in SCTV! She's so personable and sweet yet biting and hilarious. Shes a queen of comedy and a Canadian treasure!

[@bo2720]

And an amazing singer! Beautiful, too. A gorgeous woman

[@Dellparks3]

@@bo2720is she in a deleted scene of home alone

[@GA-1st]

The best! I loved Catherine O'Hara and SCTV back in the'80s. One of the best comedy shows EVER on television. Thanks for posting!

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

And the first seasons were produced in Edmonton, Alberta. On a low budget. Who would have thought! On CBC in Canada and NBC in America.

[@waynej2608]

@@michaelrmurphy2734 As an American, I am eternally grateful for SCTV being broadcast here. And, I didn't care that it came on 'late'.

[@colleenwood2487]

I couldn't stay up to watch SCTV very often. It was on so late at night. Maybe I'll try and stream it.

[@tomreedyjr3631]

SCTV was one of the best comedy shows on TV. Joe Flaherty was A riot... Dave Thomas and Catherine played a pimp and wanna be hooked in a skit that was a riot. Funny show..

[@tonyrehal218]

Just think that nobody knew during this show that Home Alone 🏡 would end up being one of the greatest Christmas 🎄 movies ever filmed. Catherine O’Hara was hilarious on SCTV.

[@youtuuba]

And also on the Christopher Guest "mockumentaries", Best In Show, Guffman, etc.

[@waynej2608]

@@youtuuba and the one about the folk music scene. The Mighty Wind, I think. Oh man, those are my kind of films. Chris Guest is a freaking genius.

[@youtuuba]

@@waynej2608 , Guest's method in those films was to comene up with a story outline, and then the large ensemble cast, each of them experienced at comic improvisation, would create their characters, improvise dialogue and flesh out each scene. They always ended up with a lot more than they could use. Then it was Guest's task to select the best versions and edit it together into a viewable length. So everyone was operating at comic genius level.

[@themonkeyhand]

I just re-watched them both, actually pretty bad X-mas movies. 99% of the people in both movies are assholes, Kevin included. The only nice people in the movies are over 60 or work for Santa.

[@stephenmaniloff8493]

Toney ….Right. …..Catherine……How bout……John Candy….R.I.P…………… .Eugene Levy…….Martin Short…..etc….”The Schmenki Brothers…..🤪😬

[@thebreathalyzer]

OMG, she's hysterical. No wonder she's so good at improv, she's amazingly quick witted.

[@cameroncooper4175]

She comes from a very large and very funny family. She said during one early interview that she was happy to stay in on Saturday nights because her family was so entertaining.

[@Dellparks3]

@@cameroncooper4175I wish they could talked about home alone 1990 tv edit

[@cameroncooper4175]

The one without Trump? @@Dellparks3

[@danielm3192]

Johnny was such a great interviewer. He was authentic with his questions, and interest in his guests.

[@kyannos]

Yes he was the best interviewer and always will be, I mean I love Colbert as a stand up guy but only Lettermen came close and he was kind of cynical in his style and I liked that!

[@greenkidd529]

he sucked, he just had legendary guest on, all talk show host sucked tbh. Conan is the best of the bunch but theyre all bad

[@danielm3192]

@@greenkidd529 she was not "legendary" at this point in her young career. Johnny did just fine with this interview.

[@ricklalonde2740]

Johnny really showed his stuff when he had regular folks or kids as guests. The potato chip lady comes to mind.

[@007nadineL]

No. He cut her drowning story off by saying riptide instead of letting her tell it her way thus cutting the legs off her story. Very rude.

[@donnadaisy333]

Elegant, humorous, beautiful lady. ❤️

[@TRJ2241987]

It's absurd that Home Alone is over 30 years old. I can still remember seeing the poster on the window of my local video store

[@kwebster62]

Video store? That proves it's 30 years old. :)

[@Damone7653]

Oh yeah! Then there was that room with the black curtain, I always wondered what was in there 🤔

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@Damone7653 I don't think so, Johnny boy!

[@StonefolkNetwork]

@@kwebster62 oh hush sonny jim

[@butterflymoon6368]

Video lol

[@artistnyc123]

It's really cool to imagine Johnny Carson getting off from his tonight show gig late at night and watching SCTV and seeing just how talented these people are. You can tell in the introduction how genuine he is about what a great show he thought it was.

[@robbernath]

The shows in later years were taped at 5:30 p.m. local time each day, so he was most certainly not watching SCTV episodes right after work.

[@TransVangal]

Her dress is timeless, so modern

[@nadinewilliams6465]

That dress and dark hose was a staple in 1990's. She is a great dresser. Classy but a fun twist and edge.

[@mircat28]

@@nadinewilliams6465 a classic black dress and dark pantyhose is not a twist and has nothing whatsoever to do with being edgy. It's classic, elegance.

[@nadinewilliams6465]

@@mircat28 her style not that dress. READ

[@baroquejen]

Honestly her hair isn't too bad either, for that time period. A tiny bit dated, but not too bad.

[@SRose-vp6ew]

@@mircat28 You can still do this today, and I have, but it was what EVERYONE had on as the "trend" in the 1990's. Some trends are classic and what people are trying to say is she did it in an edgy way. I actually think it would have looked better if it had a more sculpted top, but how she did it was edgy, re-watch her walk in. Check out how she took a simple dress but now look at her full short hair, black tights, low square top, and earings.

[@thexxit]

SCTV was one of the very best and funniest shows ever made! Catherine O'Hara is one of Canada's best talents. I forgot how long Johnny actually was on - or maybe how long ago Home Alone premiered!

[@maggies88]

She just won the Governor General's award. Very well-deserved.

[@ebaylistentomusic]

What an honor for the Governor's General, getting to meet Catherine O'Hara.

[@essessessesq]

@@ebaylistentomusic The Canadian deputy of Her Majesty

[@be6302]

She is a treasure and she is so amazing she deserves all the best I'm from the 80s and she is my favourite just so sweet person and genuine 😍

[@davidellis5141]

Catherine O'Hara was very pretty 😍

[@DannyCoombs709]

Still is

[@enchiladamike]

Yes she is but I find her even more attractive now in Schitts Creek.

[@lysechrist1947]

No one ever replaced Johnny Carson.

[@encinobalboa]

Catherine is a charming actress. Wonderful!

[@who-arewe]

Oh my godddd!! She just did something with her voice that sounded like a crow! Haha wonderful foreshadowing for her character in Schitt's Creek. 🤗

[@damonhines8187]

I played a party above what would be Marcus O'Hara's Squeeze Club in 1980 with 5 percussionists and a bassist(I played guitar). During the next band I found Catherine in the "living room" swaddled in a big fur coat and deep in conversation, and stood watching her with a friend until she looked up. We smiled, waved and left.

[@michaelallport5816]

Catherine is just a doll!

[@lindalicata8303]

I use to love SCTV. It was hysterical. Martin Short, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Andrea Martin. And Catherine O'Hara.

[@averythecoolcat]

and Rick Moranis.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

They were so much funnier than any of their contemporaries if you get my drift.

[@labluvver]

why do people always forget Dave Thomas?

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@labluvver Who's dave thomas?

[@waynej2608]

I loved it too. Good on Carson for singing it's praises. Rob Flaherty hosting 'chiller thrillers' or something, as a Count Dracula who howls like a werewolf! Lmfao!!! Great cast, all the way around. The ladies, Catherine and Andrea were awesome. I gotta seek that show out, again. 👍

[@DonavanCMcCoy]

Beautiful, classy and funny. She has given us so much in her lifetime.

[@Howard007]

When they “knock on wood” at the police station after joking they never forgot their luggage as they’re reporting Kevin missing is absolutely hilarious

[@stupendous1068]

John Heard is the one that says the infamous line there.

[@davemiller6055]

Wow! She cleans up nicely. Beautiful woman.

[@justanjustan9624]

Man I miss this time so much, especially the further we get into this strange era. I was in diapers when THIS aired but that decade as a whole holds some very sweet and simpler memories, let me tell ya!

[@LoveFlatfootin1]

She was so funny in Beetlejuice..."Day-O!"

[@eemoogee160]

My favorite 😍

[@garymcaleer6112]

My all time favorite is Catherine O'Hara. To me, she shined above the rest, especially with her speed-reading course on SCTV! I laugh every time I think of it. But her two skits that I paraphrased with my parents during the holidays were her "Greatest Hits of The Eleventh Century" and her medieval skit where she didn't like brussels sprouts and was sent to the dungeon! I bust up every time. The man who won her heart was blessed.

[@hughdunbar9823]

Lola Heatherton still kills me to this day.

[@squirehaggard4749]

What I loved about SCTV was how the premise of so many of the sketches was so bizarre. I never saw the two you mentioned but am cracking up over them.

[@hughdunbar9823]

@@squirehaggard4749 did you find them? "Lola Heatherton made a number of appearances. One of my favourite episodes was when she did her own variety special. "Lola Heatherton, Bouncing Back to You". I'm sure it's on KZbin

[@Dimwit720]

Dave Thomas and her as Steve & Eydie (and Lola shows up as a telethon call taker at the start): kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWOZoXeogM-Hq7s

[@robertsprouse9282]

@@hughdunbar9823, she wants to bare all your children..

[@glennaembrett610]

All the talent that came out of SCTV , Out of Canada...amazing. The best comedy skit show ever. I loved the paradies..and loved all the creativity..all the actors / comedians from that show all became famous in their own right. Just loved that show so much!!

[@Moonraker11]

I managed a movie theater when this movie came out and it was by far the most ridiculously crowded movie we had ever shown EVER. This was WAY before online ticket sales, reserved seating or anything of that nature. We would sell the movie out in 5-10 minutes after tickets would go on sale. People were buying 20-30 tickets at a time (supposedly for large family groups). Then, when the movie sold out at 4:05 pm for a 5:00 pm showing, people were just beyond furious! The crowds just never stopped coming!

[@StonefolkNetwork]

It was a phenomenon! I was 5 years old but already very into movies and I remember it being the first time I got an idea of what a blockbuster was, an event movie. I think I got to see it within the first 2 weeks of it coming out and I remember feeling like I was part of some important club, some cultural milestone. Wow, I haven’t thought about that feeling in years. Thanks for prompting me to pull it up in the ol’ memory bank.

[@awakeenlighten2298]

The best of days back then!

[@FredPickett]

One of the best interviwing one of the best.

[@LATVERIAN1]

What a beautiful & talented lady this is.

[@BlueMHart]

"I don't want to get too personal-" "Then don't!" Man I love her! Also, this is the second time that I've seen Catherine O'Hara tell a story about being in some form of peril while on vacation, on a late night talk show. Not sure what that means.

[@jojomcgee3430]

I'm so glad her career is going great! Always loved her!

[@stevem5685]

She played her part perfect as "Bam Bam" on Curb Your Enthusiasm

[@Shuggies]

I really wanted to see the clip .. and she is just adorable isn't she. I've never seen her in an interview before.

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

MISS JOHNNY CARSON EVERYDAY THE WORLD IS A LESSER PLACE WITHOUT HIM

[@Vejur9000]

Comic genius and one of the greats.

[@ThePwig]

It’s such a great laugh Carson has

[@carriedillmann4455]

Johnny Carson was ONE OF A KIND!!!!!!!!!!! NO ONE PAST OR PRESENT SHOULD BE MENTIONED IN THE SAME SENTENCE ! ESPECIAL NOW NONE OF THE HOSTS TODAY ARE HUMOROUS IN THE LEAST!!! THEY ARE ANGRY MEAN NARCISSISTS !!!

[@Rashy225]

Johnny Carson is still the best US late night talk show host. So much better than anyone today. Joan Rivers was great too!

[@historynownvtv4519]

Dick Cavett was great too.

[@cerny4444]

Amen!

[@dvsdawl]

Not based on this chat..

[@TheListenerCanon]

This aired 8 days after I was born! Love you COH!

[@nolimendoza4588]

She was so gorgeous.

[@johnross9364]

What a lovely actress I always loved her specially working with kids liking Home Alone

[@R_M.P]

And what's really cool is Catherine and Bo Welch are married and have been together for over 30 years.

[@man-bagdammit2297]

Catherine O'Hara was gorgeous at this age!

[@FodorPupil]

Indeed!

[@adriande1]

She’s still got it 😉

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

Still is today!

[@daveluttinen2547]

Seeing her in television commercials recently shows she has aged well. Great actress. "KEVIN!"

[@michaeltaylors2456]

Kind of insulting but ok, you are not wrong either. I have a thing for the comedic ones 😍

[@LoveMusic9973]

A gentleman is irresistible!!!!!

[@11C1P]

I was one of those kids who stayed up to watch that show back in the late 70's & early 80's.

[@GreenMountainVelvet]

Does anyone recall which clip from Home Alone they played? God this woman is a national treasure (even though she’s from Canada)!

[@rnorth8812]

We have National Treasures too.

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@rnorth8812 Cage Coppola. 😃😃

[@orangesharpy]

@@rnorth8812 In fact you have the best one in the world. The Stanley Cup

[@rileyhalls9301]

Johnny was also great at recognizing talent.

[@brewer921]

I really dig that Carson watched SCTV. At least enough to talk about it.

[@sclogse1]

Well, he went to work at 5 p.m., so....

[@brewer921]

@@sclogse1 No, the show taped at about 5. But I wasn't commenting on his work schedule, rather his hipness.

[@essessessesq]

The reason SCTV was on at one a.m. was because Fred Silverman, head of NBC, said it could not succeed in Prime Time "because it requires too much INTELLIGENCE to understand the humor"----and that was 40 years ago.....the USA was not nearly as dumb then as it is now

[@DonTruman]

"Home Alone opens tomorrow". 31 years ago. Great TV, great movies. Now we have neither. BTW, she mentioned her boyfriend's name was "Bo". Her Wikipedia page says she married Bo Welch in 1992 and is still married to him.

[@essessessesq]

i really am glad to find that out, thanks!

[@waynej2608]

That's cool. I'm thinking that Catherine probably developed her swimming skills.

[@barrybrown9104]

Too bad she didn't do Lola Heatherton!! One of her best!!

[@jerrygerardi8552]

Classy clip all around... Thanks for posting!

[@darklordojeda]

I like how she said she still sees everybody and how long they have continued to make very good movies.

[@hectorlopez1069]

She did great as Kevin's mother in the home alone movies.

[@RayC234]

Always loved Catherine O'Hara and she is so good as Moira in Schitt's Creek.

[@Sharon-dl5xj]

Such a phenomenal talent. Adore her ❤️

[@stevenmorris2293]

What a doll !

[@TravelinBand747]

Home Alone would be opening the next day. Here they were talking about a to-be classic and what would be her most famous role, and yet they didn’t know that here. (Although she’s great in Schitt’s Creek as Moira, she’ll still always be known as the Home Alone mom first!)

[@slammajamma5435]

Home Alone my ass. She’s pure SCTV! Get it together man & move outside your bubble.

[@rnorth8812]

@@slammajamma5435 Agreed. Well known before Home Alone. SCTV!!

[@TravelinBand747]

@@slammajamma5435 I said her most famous role.

[@TRJ2241987]

Anybody under 40 knows her for Home Alone

[@breckrichardson390]

And Johnny is asking about her boyfriend, Bo, and if she thinks that relationship could ever be serious enough to you turn into marriage. She seems to want to avoid answering that question and starts talking like marriage is some strange concept. Well less than two years after this, she DID marry Bo and they have two children together. And in 2022 they'll be celebrating thirty years of marriage! So Johnny, the answer is yes!

[@FodorPupil]

Perfect timing for this clip.

[@stupendous1068]

Even before the first Home Alone film was released, she's already sporting her hairstyle from the second film.

[@vlexanderson5454]

Am I the only one surprised Johnny Carson was still on air when Home Alone came out?

[@tiprat5051]

1992 was his last year on air.

[@TRJ2241987]

"Did you know that, Ed?"

[@dandennis4602]

Kevin watches a Johnny Carson clip in Home Alone.

[@ArturLapurinsh]

It's funny that in the first part of Home Alone, Kevin McCallister watches "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" before bed ~ Johnny: "Dear Santa Claus. I got a little sister last year.This year i'd rather have some clay dough" ;)

[@TTony-tu6dm]

It’s criminal to be both that hot and that talented

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Just a lovely, lovely lady .. one of the most supremely talented and funny people, EVER. (Anything she's ever done in a Christopher Guest "mocumentary" is comedy gold!"

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

To think that Johnny Carson watched and loved SCTV. Made in Edmonton, Alberta (the first seasons) then in Toronto. But SCTV was so Canadian in tone I always wondered what America saw in it. Of course Ed Sullivan loved Wayne and Shuster! And Catherine is there on the couch with...BOB NEWHART!!!! OMG!! When my sister moved to Toronto she was living in the house on Avenue Road next to the house where Martin Short lived. WOW...

[@smatejka1]

Loved Wayne and Schuster. We had Johnny Wayne help out our Winona High School telethon in ‘74 or ‘75 if I recall correctly and we bought a $10,000 van for the local MS chapter. Not bad for a bunch of high school kids on a very small cable channel. Cable was just starting out and it was cool seeing how small the ‘studio’ was but you didn’t know it when you saw the show on tv. Great of Johnny to help us out.

[@kevindean1327]

Wayne and Schuster sucked!!! I watched SCTV right from the beginning as a 16 year old. That was high level comedy with a cast of serious hitters. A better ensemble than was ever assembled for SNL. But Wayne and Schuster? You find their DVD's in the same bin as Hym Sing, The King of Kensington, The Rene Simard show, and Degrassi, Canadian embarrasments!!!

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

@@kevindean1327 You are EVIL!!!! Living in the truck on Wellington street, are you?!!

[@bogger4fun40]

The first 2 seasons of SCTV (named "Second City Television" back then) were produced at Global Studios in Toronto. In 1978, Global decided to drop the show, mainly because it became too expensive to produce. Andrew Alexander and Len Stuart shopped the show around and found Dr. Charles Allard, who thought highly of the show and made the deal that brought the show out to Edmonton to be filmed at ITV. They produced Season 3 and the first 2 cycles of the NBC 90 minute shows ("SCTV Network 90" and "SCTV Network") at ITV, then moved the show to Magder Studios in Toronto for the remaining run of the NBC shows. For more information on the show's history, pick up a copy of "SCTV:Behind the Scenes", written by Dave Thomas, who should know because he was there. SCTV was, in my opinion, WAY BETTER than Saturday Night Live, especially during that time period.

[@JasperXoR]

Wow she's young here and bit nervous. Such a good talent!

[@kaysheffield604]

Look how many subscribers his channel has. He was such a talent that 17 years after his death we still love to watch him. Love Johnny. Thank You Lord for his talent that helped many of us end our days with laughter. 🙏😇😂

[@tiprat5051]

One of the greatest kids movies.

[@BonafideGail]

She is a fantastic talent.

[@wenmcbrainvansandt5240]

Always had a crush on her ❤️💘

[@LoveMusic9973]

Love Johnny 🙏😘

[@saschayufer2474]

she looks great.

[@ricoz2016]

5:25- Carson: I don't want to get too personal... O'Hara: Then DON'T! We need more of that now.

[@BobKnight-mm2ze]

I'd been thinking about SCTV, searched around, found this clip. What a magical time for her. She was "known" at the time, probably to most of the country, for Beetlejuice. But 24 hours before Home Alone opened!? Her life literally changed the next day. In real time, as I write this, she recently gave a speech at Macaulay's Hollywood star ceremony, almost 34 years after this interview.

[@ejej6934]

I loved her in SCTV and thought she was amazing in Best In Show. What a cast on SCTV when she and Eugene Levy and John Candy and..... man, that show had so many great comic actors it was ridiculous.

[@bobtepedino5661]

Love! Love! Love!

[@outtathyme5679]

So charming

[@diggerthegroundhog8799]

OMG she looked so good. Her outfit, hair and entire look would still fit in today. Total babe. Like everyone at.SCTC.way ahead of her time. I wonder if she married that surfer?

[@miketybring4700]

yup

[@CourtneyMeloche]

She did! They married in 1992 and are still married ☺️

[@pdbordelon]

I love our Catherine!

[@willpennington5479]

She's such a treasure ❤❤

[@kennybegeske8824]

Catherine O'Hara is Beautiful and Goth

[@chantsforrain]

Oh thanks, she's lovely! Any chance of posting her appearance in 1988 too? Would love to see it.

[@mrgq181able]

home alone came out she became a huge SUPERSTAR

[@killemall69]

Found a podcast about Carson recently, enjoyed the Cathy Rich one

[@goldenagenut]

He's right, we could only see SCTV if we stayed up late, it started at 1:00 AM! One of my favorite human beings on Earth, Catherine O'Hara is a 5-star heavyweight talent! I consider she and Eugene Levy to be one of the best comedy teams in the last 40 years! She has done so much, portrayed so many great characters and written so much hilarious comedy, a true treasure to this planet! .. and she's always been so beautiful!!! 😏👍

[@rbjones72703]

After Hours one of my favorite movies

[@scottsteel2395]

As Letterman would say...ONE...FABULOUS...BABE.

[@pushyred]

I miss Johnny

[@commanderkeen3787]

She looks like a lot of fun

[@KeltoiMagus]

We "kids" who watched SC5V were lucky enough to see it on PBS.

[@kristenrock7783]

Been doing Improv since I was 18, 33 ... well basically 34 in April. Any way lol, O'Hara has been a big influence on me way before I knew what Improv was. Of course, I use my own charm when I do a scene, but O'Hara definitely is shining through. 💗💗

[@judahtribe7]

Oh my gosh loved her in schitt's Creek

[@tenniswilliam]

She is wonderful

[@Drawingwith_Lyra]

OMG I LOVE HER❤😂

[@recordman64]

Funny and beautiful...a great combination!

[@fireball7201]

In home alone when her and John candy were talking in the van and John said how he left his child at a funeral for 5 or 6 hrs alone with a corpse and she asked if the child was ok and John candy said oh yeah he was quiet for a while but after maybe 6 months he started talking again lol 😂 to.funny ... Catherine and John came up with that on their own it was not in the script

[@sclogse1]

ONCE. Katherine did Hepburn holding court in a chair by herself, and it was unreal.