Play It Again, Bob (PT 1/2)

[@imashmenge7981]

Interesting that these two great impressionists could also portray two goofy, clueless, beer-chugging hosers.

[@briandressel1344]

Steve Martin in his autobiography “Born Standing Up” said that Rick was so good as Woody that it made Woody seem like a faker

[@johnheart6890]

This is THE best Bob Hope imitation of all time. And the woody Allen is perfect!

[@SubRosaUSA]

even Rich Little couldn't nail Bob Hope - but Dave Thomas had it down cold and Moranis was the first to do Woody

[@peterp2153]

Still love Rick’s George Carlin impersonation. Absolutely savaged Carlin across multiple skits.

[@richardpeetrinpeetrin9817]

I fervently concur!! Moranis as Woody Allen, and Dave Thomas as Bob Hope! PERFECT.....And they both resemble them too ever so strikingly so, It's scary!... Woody Allen and Bobe Hope together in a Movie?? What a concept..... 😅

[@bobbyhulll8737]

The Village People , First Rock n Roll act to stay at the Waldorf Astoria and request bunk Beds !

[@michaellinner7772]

SCTV was so underrated. Dave Thomas's Bob Hope was the very best I've ever heard. Rick Moranis's Woody Allen was spot on as well

[@my3dviews]

I don't think it was underrated at all. People always loved this show. Was my favourite at the time it was on.

[@michaellinner7772]

@@my3dviews In Canada yes. I'm in that weird country just south of the Great White North and here it proved difficult to find on occasion.

[@my3dviews]

@@michaellinner7772 Okay, that could be true. I was looking at it from a Canadian's perspective and that show was always highly rated. Even after they quit making new episodes, there was always a channel showing old ones. I live in Edmonton, one of the cities where the show was shot. So, they may have shown it more than in other parts of Canada.

[@craignewnes5148]

Nobody does Bob Hope like Dave Thomas. And he doesn`t even exaggerate. So subtle, Perfect!

[@MarkWolfeDesign]

Nothing like this on TV anymore. This is brilliant.

[@willrothfuss8470]

"What's with the hands, you want an actress with arthritis?" Brilliant.

[@Paul_Wetor]

I loved "Play It Again, Sam" when it first came out. That opening parody is dead-on perfect. And the Bob Hope/Woody Allen impressions are just as good.

[@angelthman1659]

This skit is so brilliant it deserves an emmy of its own.

[@DrRestezi]

The level of sophistication in the writing and performances here is absolutely peerless. In fact, I would say it's actually superior to most Woody Allen material--and Bob Hope for that matter. It almost makes me weep how much pop culture has declined since those great days--something so nuanced and finely detailed would never be attempted today, saturated as we are with Bieber and Snookie. As far as sketch comedy goes, SCTV has never been equalled.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

"What's with the hands? You want a lady with arthritis?" = brilliant!

[@Redmenace96]

You broaden your argument to SCTV, and entertainment in general- but I think just this skit deserves recognition as a work of art. It is one of the greatest parodies of all time. After 40 years, I still can remember lines from it. It is comedy perfection. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas became my comedy heroes and changed my whole life.

[@dunebillyofswanbeach4294]

If Woody Allen’s film dialogue wasn’t superior to Bob Hope’s cornball stuff then I’m really missing something.

[@neonfroot]

pop culture hasnt realky declined the way you think

[@SFFOOL76]

The Waldort Astoria joke at the end had me laughing so hard because its just a perfect mimic of Bob Hope telling a awful zinger. Dave Thomas had him down.

[@fredgarv79]

I will never forget when this show first came on. Right after SNL at 1am. I was like 15 and loved to stay up late on a sat night. It was so strange, very hit and miss but it grew on you. A very Canadian sense of humor. So many great characters, not like SNL with their huge ego's and drugs. These guys were just funny. Bob and Doug, Edith prickley, the count, the great John Candy, they were all great

[@HailAnts]

Before this show premiered on late night on NBC it was in syndication in America on some local stations. I occasionally saw it on WWOR channel 9 in the tri-state area. WOR was not known for good programming. It was _very_ hit or miss! Most of the time miss. It had the feel of a bad cable access show. Every so often they got in some good jokes, but most of the time it was so bad I never watched it regularly. I was hesitant to watch it on NBC, but it got so much better. Eventually it became better than SNL (the mid-80s was not a good era for SNL)..

[@georgesotiroff5080]

I LOVE Edith Prickley!

[@tomlahr9372]

"Play It Again Bob" is one of the funniest and most satirical bits ever.

[@rmjon23]

Maybe the best Woody impression ever by Moranis. Scary good.

[@oscarwilde6649]

Aram Jahn Is it crazy good, too? Jesus Christ, what has happened to the English language in this vacuous country?

[@classicmax3311]

Aram Jahn is

[@romanramirez7847]

His Dick Cavett is great as well!

[@yaywhewclips242]

Both excellent actors have got Hope and Allen down pat!! Very funny!

[@tonyhancock3912]

The Village People ladies and gentlemen. Aren't they something! 😂

[@Raughwe]

Those cats are wild.

[@Paulmancieri67]

I love how they played it straight. There was never any chummy wink wink type of humor that is so prevalent in skit shows. SCTV was the best.

[@mordecaiesther3591]

Total genius !!! This should of been a movie .

[@jamesconsiglio311]

Play it again,Bob classic skit Dave Thomas and Rick moranis are just amazing!!!!!!!!

[@shawngregory1429]

Bob wants Joey Heatherton instead of Diane Keaton. LOL.

[@Lampshade51]

This is absolutely brilliant! The writing, the impressions, everything. Major kudos. Outstanding!

[@MrAitraining]

SCTV at it's best.

[@norobbery]

This show makes me laugh as hard as Monty Python. No one today can approach either.

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

Monty python is absolute garbage. Sctv and snl is great

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

4m14s "That string bean that was in your movie?" LOL! Perfect description of Diane Keaton.

[@LittleDragon2000]

I think this is from when the show was shot in Edmonton. Still infinitely better and sharper than SNL ever was.

[@bobbyhulll8737]

Not live different things all together

[@johnkonrad5040]

First outdoor shot was set on Whyte Ave, outside the Princess Theatre (sadly closed now because of COVID) Second was shot behind Stanley Milner Library, with the Citadel Theatre visible. Final outdoor shot was made on the corner of 103rd Ave and 100 St NW. The Edmonton CN Tower can be seen vaguely behind them. Those old buses I remember from my youth. Edmonton kept them going until the mid-2000s, but one can still find them occasionally on lots in BC

[@k364k364]

@@johnkonrad5040 First shot was on Jasper Avenue, between 100&101 street. The marquee is from the old Capitol Theatre, torn down in about 2010. Google street view will show it clearly.

[@k364k364]

Actually, it might be the Odeon Theatre

[@MagicHiccups]

@@k364k364 100% the odeon theatre (or odeon 1&2 ) saw Cat people there and then walked a few blocks to the Rialto theater (also 1&2)to see Silent rage waaaaay back one chilly saturday in the early 80s.They both opened the same weekend. Thanks for dusting off that memory.

[@jbcoops]

SCTV's "Play It Again, Bob"...some of the best impressions ever!

[@GA-1st]

Lordy. NO ONE, I mean NO ONE, can do Hope better than Dave Thomas. Brilliant writing here, too. Interestingly, Hope himself couldn't quite see it...

[@ronreed6200]

Today I learned this was their first skit together! Holy crap, this is funny! 😆

[@thomaskirkpatrick1134]

These Guys were all Fantastic!

[@rubyfirefly2582]

"Bald on jokes" LOL! That's brilliant.

[@nickbigd]

Rick Moranis is perfection.

[@leilanirocks]

So many will never even know just how good Dave Thomas’s Bob Hope is here. It is just so solid. “How ‘bout that, ladies and gentlemen?”

[@mserisman3449]

Moranis does Woody better than Woody..

[@IndyDefense]

I actually forgot for a second or two that it was an impression.

[@estebansteverincon7117]

And Thomas does Hope better than Hope. Well...he's dead, so..._anybody_ can do him better.

[@canaisyoung3601]

I know. It scares me too.

[@denisefitzgerald8783]

It’s uncanny.

[@TheVagolfer]

Ironically, when Woody Allen started his movie career, he said all he was doing was imitating Bob Hope...and badly.

[@henryosborne7052]

It’s like SNL for the thinking person.

[@amandajstar]

Great, I love 'Woody' and 'Bob' as well. So true to life!

[@Midwest_Redneck]

Very few people could ever do a Bob Hope impression. Dave Thomas has it down.

[@MrAitraining]

Most never even attempted. Dave and the SCTV cast nailed so many great impersonations

[@mikeellement1567]

He did Hope better than Hope.

[@stevenburch6474]

Rich little admitted that Bob Hope was not easy to imitate, but Dave Thomas was the best at it and these videos prove it.

[@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL]

Moranis made more money playing a simp in "Ghost Busters", but his best work, by far, is on SCTV playing Woody Allen, with Dave Thomas as Bob Hope. That holds true for the entire SCTV cast: Moranis, Flaherty, Andrea Martin, O'Hara, Candy, even Martin Short. Their best comedy was featured on SCTV. They should have all been millionaires after producing SCTV, but they had to go on to produce mediocre garbage in The States to become wealthy. Tragic.

[@FH-fg9od]

This was filmed in Edmonton!! That's the downtown public library in the background and there's an ETS bus in one of the scenes!

[@HELLH0WND]

Yup, noticed that too!

[@margaretross9150]

They did very good work in Edmonton. Said there wasn't much else to do!

[@timgriffith9537]

what's with the hands? you want an actress with arthritis? gets me every time.

[@Laura-fw1jo]

Better than Joey Heatherton ???

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@Laura-fw1joThat stringbean that was in your movie?

[@JCO2002]

Best comedy show ever.

[@strangesevin]

These guys are so talented so underrated

[@jamesanthony5681]

"The Village People, ladies and gentleman. Aren't they something! They're the first rock group to stay at the Waldorf Astoria and request bunk beds."

[@johnkonrad5040]

First outdoor shot was set on Whyte Ave, outside the Princess Theatre (sadly closed now because of COVID). 82nd Ave, facing West. Second was shot behind Stanley Milner Library, with the Citadel Theatre visible. 101st A Ave facing North. Final outdoor shot was made on the corner of 103rd Ave and 100 St NW. The Edmonton CN Tower can be seen vaguely behind them. Those old buses I remember from my youth. Edmonton kept them going until the mid-2000s, but one can still find them occasionally on lots in BC

[@c.s.mcleod7383]

No. Outdoor shot was of Odeon theatre. The interior movie shot was the Milner library theatre which was sadly underused and final shot was on Milner theatre stage.

[@tvmonte]

I just found out Anita Ekburg died today so I had to look up this sketch to find Thomas' line as Hope about her and Moranis as Woody's reaction to it. "What's with the hands, want an actress with arthritis?" Hilarious! R.I.P. Ms. Ekburg

[@tvmonte]

Correction, it's Ekberg.

[@Davett53]

2022,......Still holds up and is incredibly funny!........Great impersonations!

[@bdfunke]

“What’s with the hands? You want an actress with arthritis?” 😄😅😂😂🤣

[@razorjules]

Look Woody, i don't mean to pull rank on you...

[@stevefaure415]

This is so extremely funny and well-done. It's worth watching over and over. The impressions are over the top good. Still, I bet you anyone under the age of 50 is not going to really find it very funny at all for a lot of different reasons but most of all the cultural references. The Woody Allen of today, if anyone much thinks of him at all, is pretty much known for some very questionable personal behaviors, to put it kindly. But when this came out Woody Allen was a different icon altogether. And Bob Hope! That's vaudeville, that's old beyond old. The only people alive now who have any real cultural reference of Bob Hope are pretty old themselves. And there's only a handful that remember Bob in his 40's or 50's. Even humor fades away.

[@voiceguy3635]

So good I can't give a high enough number.

[@macsvens]

A work of art.

[@christopherlangdon2892]

More talent, better writing than anything SNL has ever done.

[@PikesvilleAl]

Dave is throwing some Rodney Dangerfield in there

[@tommayrant2279]

Amazing!

[@billyte1265]

This is genius!

[@cella630]

SCTV was one of the best comedy sketch shows of all time.

[@billslocum9819]

Village People opening for Bob Hope. That's one way to widen your demographic.

[@thehappycappy120]

Hahaha seeing the outside of the Odeon theatre downtown Edmonton

[@TheRealLaughingGravy]

_I happen to be here In New York doin' a special with the Village People. You seen those guys? Boy, they're wild._

[@johnpatterson4272]

These SCTV shows were big on satire, and short on a laugh-track. They were pure unscripted comedy working outside of the SNL canned comedic delivery of the day.

[@Vincek88]

That's brilliant - it's clear Allen did write his stuff there, but he wanted no part of that movie afterward.

[@susanmorano405]

This is so perfect

[@charlyW34]

Well said DrRes. the biggest problem today is that everyone can be famous for 5 minutes, never mind the 15 Andy Warhol spoke of. There are absolutely no filters in place anymore to weed out the garbage. We all have to our own filters, and dig deep. Cheers

[@billwhelpley6825]

That's the stuff that really slays them! Freaking hysterical.

[@palindrome1959]

Brilliant!!!

[@donbishop1634]

Moranis' Woody Allen is spot on!

[@spockboy]

Brilliant as always but at 2:10 they made a mistake. Woody DID write Casino Royale, and it was his hatred of the final product that made him become a director. :)

[@trieck]

SpockBoy Woody did NOT write Casino Royale. I believe you are thinking of “What’s New, Pussycat?”.

[@ismaelcamargoayala2971]

Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, Kevinn Smith and Alexander Payne meet to discuss about the best posible actress to play Aphrodite. The work meeting turn to be a long talking about women. At the third part of the script Aphrodite appears to them and join the conversation. I need four inpersonators to make it.

[@GreasyFilms-qc1xo]

So smart. SCTV was so on point.

[@skronked]

Awesome duo

[@michaelkenyon6173]

Genius.

[@TheRebe30]

Happy Birthday Rick Moranis!

[@Rose-qd2bl]

One of the great things about SCTV is they made fun of the right AND the left.

[@carminedawg9506]

After all these years I still laugh at that arthritis joke

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Canadian comedic actors ...justttt fabulous 😊

[@KenPotter]

That was the OLD Formula: 100% Funny, 0% Political

[@milascave2]

ken: that was the SCTV formula. SNL was ALWAYS political. And before them, lots of political comedy.

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

@@milascave2 Each (SNL and SCTV) excel at their chosen formulas, but I always preferred the tone of SCTV,,,

[@milascave2]

karl: That's cool. But I think most of the folks making the comparison are just mad that they make fun of Trump, and they are mad because he complains about it, which no former president ever did evan though they made fun of every president since Nixon. And speaking of which, SCTV did not a skit making fun of Nixon's aid G. Gordan Liddy. So they wern't zero percent political.

[@brandue4523]

Joey Heatherton haha!!!

[@loonylovesgood]

Hey look, it's the Edmonton Public Library....

[@cartwright420able]

He nails the woodman!

[@excellinkus]

Dave Thomas is one of the most misunderestimated impressionists of all time.

[@rubyfirefly2582]

Who else can do such a perfect Bob Hope? Dave's incredible. Not just the voice but that condescending attitude. LOL

[@electricheadboy]

Underrated. He is really good!

[@mrb4886]

@@electricheadboy Not underrated

[@electricheadboy]

Mark Bresnahan I was partially just saying that “underrated” is probably the word that he(?) was thinking of, rather than “misunderestimated”. Maybe I was mistaken somehow, but I believe it’s not a real word. Anyways, maybe I should just say that I have rarely heard him being mentioned, and he’s really good. I’m not sure if there’s a good word for that, maybe “underrepresented” is pretty close.

[@estebansteverincon7117]

@@electricheadboy Maybe it's a _joke?_

[@djrychlak4443]

Bob's penchant for women with arthritis discussed matter-of-factly in front of the makeup woman is devastating.

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Love “Bob Hope”....

[@melomane2010]

It was sketches like these that made SCTV a legend in my mind. Impressions so good you forget they're impressions. Satire so well-written and performed you forget it is satire. And all of their stuff still holds up.

[@michaelwilson2340]

"You want an actress with arthritis? Good one!

[@jtp6604]

Michael Wilson similar to a line on threes company lol

[@joedude4822]

Omg, I sat and at my lunch here when this was filmed. Its in front of the Edmonton Public Library across from Churchill square....man time has gone 😢

[@BabaBest2000]

Didn't Moranis get mugged recently in New York City?

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Yes. 😢

[@jakeamberson3239]

Haha can we get Joey Heatherton for that. Hahahaha

[@daveslivinski8941]

The best.

[@rickneal4967]

You can see the beginnings of Rick Moranis' Ghostbusters character here....

[@charlyW34]

I love these unintentional visual time capsules. The only small cars around were the Volkswagon bug.

[@rixvspinner]

This is a memorable SCTV short film and there were many,

[@andrewwhite8762]

So good

[@dougmeade5393]

Omg. Masterpiece !!! Hilarious.

[@PikesvilleAl]

1:15 is that Andrea Martin in the pink dress turning her head and Joe Flaherty in his Guy Calbellaero hat?

[@jeremyshewell2445]

Masterful!!

[@horsesense6173]

...arthritis .....hahahahahahahaaaaaaa .....oh, the good old days!

[@Longshot_NYC]

Dave Thomas is underrated

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Woody did all his great films in Edmonton. 1979's _Strathcona_ was done so tastefully in b&w.

[@willrich3908]

fuck me that was mind blowing!

[@RayFromLUCKYSHADOW]

Thought of this brilliant sketch after watching a KZbin recommendation of a "Woody Allen impersonation." I have a personal rule about not trashing people on their own content. Even if I disliked it. They're still people trying to do their art, putting themselves out there. They don't need some dude crapping on them. But sometimes, man, is it hard. Haha. The video in question, his Woody was soooo bad. I wonder if he's ever seen a complete Allen film. And people in the comments were like "spot on!" I can only assume none of them were really huge Woody fans. The guy played it like all Woody is is a nebbish voice and vocal tics. It reminded me of how every standup in the 80s had their bad Nicholson impression, that all sounded like impressions of each other rather than anything to do with Jack himself. Or when comics would imitate Dylan by talking in this nasal lilt. Admittedly, his SINGING sometimes sounded something like that, but his speaking voice? Never. Best Dylan impersonation was Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There. That's what the man sounded like. And this, this is the quintessential Woody Allen impersonation. My God, this is good. I wanted so badly to leave a comment on that other video like, "Go watch Rick Moranis do Woody. That's how he actually sounds." But I didn't. I came here instead. 😂

[@rbl4641]

This is comedy genius!!

[@davecongalton2858]

Dave Thomas is the only guy to ever nail Bob Hope. The best!