Ep. 26: PATRICK McKENNA (The Red Green Show, Hotel Transylvania, Murdoch Mysteries, Traders)

Pat McKenna joins Bob (Corner Gas, Red Green, JFL, 2 Broke Girls) in the clubhouse to reminisce on the halcyon days of The Red Green Show, talk RED GREEN REBOOTED (as a podcast) explore the better humanity of trader Marty Stephens and go down a serious showbiz nostalgia hole involving Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Imogene Coca, Dick Van Dyke, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney, Joyce Randolph, Pert Kelton (I said serious), Jackie Gleason, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, John Wayne, SCTV, Don Knotts, Martin and Lewis, Nichols and May, Bob and Ray, Abbott and Costello, Woody Allen, Michaels Pub and how Milton Berle wasn't really all that funny if we're being honest.
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[@catherineeaves2990]

The character of Harold is sublime. This show brings me much joy.

[@upallnightwithbob214]

❤️❤️

[@upallnightwithbob214]

That’s so great. Thank you for commenting!

[@Ambie86]

I agree!

[@n8sot]

Great show!!!!!!!! Thank you Bod and Pat!!!

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Thanks for saying so! Keep your stick on the ice :)

[@extremelydeplorablebodean839]

Love the Red Green show, Harold was the best!

[@WilliamRWarrenJr]

In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that Patrick was involved with Second City (all the really great comedians *WERE!* ) but I didn't know it until now. Thank you!

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Totally agree. Already had more than one Second City alum on the show and plan on more. Just great folks. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@Ambie86]

Oh this is the BEST thing I have seen this week. You’re such a fantastic host and it’s so so so fun to see you reconnecting with Pat and Steve and just love hearing from a show that kept me going during very hard times. Fantastic, wonderful, top notch job. Xo Ambie (The #1 Fan ;) )

[@16-BITFPV]

Harold was definitely my favorite, I still watch The Red Green Show all the time.

[@upallnightwithbob214]

I’m so glad. Thanks for watching!

[@mikeedmundson3073]

thanks to KZbin I get to watch the Red Green show again.Thank you Patrick for sharing your talent with the world, Harold is one of my fave characters 😂

[@Ambie86]

Also very cool you found ‘Bonnie’!!! That is cool, and something I never knew.

[@U_ever]

How does this channel only have 380 subscribers ? ? ? This is pure genius ! I love your work. Please keep them coming !

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Thank you so much for your kind words! I’ve been busy lately but hope to return to creating more content soon. Appreciate it. Tell your friends! :)

[@Ambie86]

I have been waiting since you announced this!!!! I’m so freaking stoked.

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Hope you enjoy Ambie!

[@Ambie86]

@@upallnightwithbob214 is that even a question in your mind?! 🤣🤣❤️

[@js4887]

Best man show I still watch the reruns brings me back in time

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Thanks for watching! Both this and Red Green :)

[@alberteinstein9176]

Great show with Patrick. Thomas Dutkiewicz USA

[@upallnightwithbob214]

@@alberteinstein9176 Thank you very much !!

[@jeffreybaker4399]

Found the comments on the Marx Brothers interesting. I recently read a book on the brothers written around 1960, about their careers up to that point. Ironically, this concern/dislike of the high energy antics is something they dealt with, sometimes being run out of the theater with no pay, from the very beginning around 1905. Their road upward was very rocky with some very sever downturns. It may have become a case of "if you like us, you like us. If you don't you don't. This is what we are." Throw in that there were underlying pulls. They preserved for the family, even though it is kind of evident they had different interests. Groucho, for example made it pretty clear he would have been a writer of novels. I recall in one later years interview where he said, "the funniest man in the world can only be really funny for about 8 minutes a night." I'm not sure he was wrong about that.

[@upallnightwithbob214]

For sure. To me the early Paramount movies (Duck Soup, Horsefeathers, Cocoanuts, etc) fare better as a watch these days than Opera or Races or most of the films they made for MGM. The Paramount movies are very rudimentary in terms of the actual filmmaking (static in the way of a lot of early talkies) but they have some of their best bits and most importantly the movies are tighter and shorter and just more energetic.

[@markponekovic3415]

here is a fun fact pat mckenna was the troll from the adventures of dudley the dragon in season two he was the voice and the costume performer and the rest of the season he did the voice but the troll didn't appear that often

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Yes he’s an unbelievably great voice actor with more animated credits than I can count!

[@jackdundon2261]

WTF, harrold has gotten OLD! (I AM STILL a kid...). Miss you guys. You guys made Friday nights "FRIDAY NIGHT", To my dad and I. Thanks PBS Oregon.

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Love to hear that. Thank you for watching, and commenting!

[@Ambie86]

Alright Pat McKenna and I can be friends. I LOVE The Dick van Dyke Show!!!!! It’s actually playing in my living room now. Also love I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show. I had a giant set of DVDs of Milton Berle specials and I didn’t get him either; didn’t find him terribly funny and didn’t really catch on. He has an episode on The Lucy Show and I didn’t ever find it all that hilarious.....okay I’ll stop talking now ;)

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Dick Van Dyke is the best

[@horton12545]

@@upallnightwithbob214 And Mary Tyler Moore was a dream as Laura!

[@Quicknpointless]

Love the red greeb show 😊😊😊

[@upallnightwithbob214]

Thanks for watching, and subscribing! So glad you enjoyed Red Green, it was fun to work on

[@Quicknpointless]

@@upallnightwithbob214 I bet it was that has a lot of classic comedy bits and my partner loved it

[@reesf743]

Our homie Harold

[@KoHoSo65]

I especially loved where you took the conversation near the end in discussing how some of our old comedy heroes are now a bit cringeworthy to say the least.

[@upallnightwithbob214]

It’s interesting because I’ve always really loved the Honeymooners. The first show I taped regularly when I got my first VCR were the so called lost episodes. Gleason can be very charming and he is undeniable as a physical comic but yeah some stuff just hits different now. And also I think just as one ages

[@horton12545]

@@upallnightwithbob214 I never watched the Honeymooners for Ralph, although he was funny. Ed Norton was the star of that show - and is still hilarious when I watch him today. Art Carney and Gleason had great chemistry. Also, I liked the unrehearsed parts where they flubbed and kept going, it made it more real. So many great episodes are coming back into my head like the "appetizer" (dog food!), Ralph learning golf (Norton-"hellooo ball"), the boss's wife (Mrs. Wiedermeyer = Marilyn Monroe type), and more. I also disagree that Ralph bullied Alice. He may have tried (I'm the king of the castle!) but she was never afraid of him, more often he was afraid of her, and by the end of the show it was always Ralph with his tail between his legs admitting she was right and he was a "mope". I find a lot of today's comedians much more cringe worthy!

[@UpstateMediaNY]

Pat hasn't appeared on the Possum Lodge podcast in awhile. Hope everything is ok in Red Green land.

[@Florek632]

Harold got older and so did I but It hit hard to see it

[@upallnightwithbob214]

We are none of us getting any younger that's for sure ha.

[@okjeffy6581]

That’s Rivet