SCTV - Maudlin's Eleven - Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, more!

[@DanMcCheese]

YEAH! OH, YEAH!

[@Cole-b4o]

Cool Daddy Cool !

[@eddiewilleford7746]

These are some old memories me and my friend Jerry would always watch these episodes he loved him God rest his soul Good times

[@w5winston]

☺

[@Huskrrrr]

The opening credits alone are worth the price of admission

[@Cole-b4o]

I love how John Candy always asks Joe Flaherty and Bobby Bittman if he may say something, like he always did on the Sammy Maudlin show!

[@MrBsbotto]

Very well done, the same way that hacks like Fernando Montalbalm would go on Merv Griffin and start off with, "You know, Maarv, there is one thing I always say to young actors...". Like he's Laurence Olivier or something. The "advice" would always be something self-aggrandizing, like: "Always be very generous to other actors, like I am..." The old gals in Merv's audience just ate it up!

[@Cole-b4o]

@@MrBsbotto & then we had Billy Crystal's "Fernando" character 😆

[@johnpelletier7641]

The SCTV gang. Just the best. Legend.

[@FreakedMarinara]

Thank you, thank you, for this memory.

[@kevinjohnson-lf3kj]

Long Live SCTV. .House of Tounge..Blew em Up Real Good..Great times in da Early 80's

[@Nitedawg1]

I haven’t even gotten through the credits yet and it’s already brilliant!

[@BunnyWatson-k1w]

These guys are in their 70s today in 2024. RIP John Candy.

[@calvinkatt662]

And RIP Joe Flaherty who died this past April.

[@STEVEN-STEELE]

Count Floyds Monster Chiller Horror Theater ​"Awhooooo.I love that character always makes me laugh.I also love the Mckenzi Brothers skits. I'm from the south but found a channel that carried SCTV way back. Take off to the Great White North 😊 Just watching this brings back so many great memories.

[@BunnyWatson-k1w]

@@STEVEN-STEELE Watch the old SCTV Christmas specials. Those are still fun to watch even 40 years after they aired.

[@STEVEN-STEELE]

@BunnyWatson-k1w Thank you I will and Merry Christmas

[@steveharrison9901]

I miss SCTV. Glad this popped up on my feed! Watching with modern eyes, this looks, somehow, like it had a higher budget compared to the usual movie parody skits. So many extras! Fairly elaborate sets. It might not be as tight as ‘Ben Him’ but it’s solid. I wish we could still have … well, everything from the prime SCTV years. But time passes.

[@camswar]

Watched SCTV all the time. So many great comics. Thanks for all the years, RIP Mr Candy.

[@KellyGreenYall]

John Candy's laugh in this makes me laugh everytime.

[@RadioClambake]

In certain situations, I still laugh like that to this day. He also laughed like that in the movie "Vacation".

[@Thisismetman]

Absolutely the best laugh in show business!

[@Paul-f7q]

@4:40, "I wanna thank you for that great round of indifference". Awesome line.😂

[@bored1ca]

I recognize some of the places they shot this - Sammy's place was on Eglinton Avenue East near Kennedy Road in Scarborough, ON Canada and then I see they shot near the old Golden Mile Plaza in West Scarborough. Lived out that way for many years and these places and this show bring back lots of memories....

[@Thisismetman]

I lived out that way as well for about a year, I’m going to watch again, thanks!

[@futuristica1710]

Too young to have seen this in the late 70s AND growing up in Europe, I never knew of SCTV before the days of KZbin. But, man!, now I know where all these great guys come from, the guys I saw in the great cinematic comedys like Ghostbusters, Uncle Buck and so on. Legends!

[@LA-hx9tx]

America in the late 70s was a great place for comedy. I was in high school and never missed one minute of SCTV, SNL or Monty Python. It would be interesting to put together a family tree of all of the movies and TV shows that came from those three sources.

[@Rational_Investor]

The scene starting at 12:43 with Bobby Bitman singing and dancing in the Beatnik cafe is pure brilliance. Eugene Levy was a triple threat...singing, dancing, and acting! This whole SCTV movie spoof is sheer brilliance! Skip Bitman with his Kruschev joke at Disneyland with Porky Pig...pure writing gold! LOL!

[@kristenr8311]

laughs at own jokes.

[@mikebozik]

I can't believe Oaeans 11 tried to copy this masterpiece... I can watch this every day for the rest of my life. The original is always better.😊

[@richardgibbins5612]

'On the Waterfront...Again' was a great remake. Bittman and Lola 'I wanna bare all your children ' Heatherton. Top notch casting and direction. Sorry Brando....

[@charlesgreenough9291]

George Clooney big ego, thinks he’s the head of the rat pack!

[@roberthill799]

bear

[@patricknorton5788]

Yeah, it's like the New Testemant was a complete knockoff of The Life of Brian. What a cheeseball move.

[@superfly3990]

You know, and I think that I can speak for everyone, the Massage Scene was great and I really mean that. What made the whole thing spectacular was having Skip Bitman popping his Zingers. The Plan is Perfect !!

[@sailordude2094]

should have gotten an Emmy. or at least a nomination. Great heist! BTW, "Johnny Puleo and the Harmonica Gang was a variety act in the 50's and 60's, Johnny himself being something of a harmonica legend, and they used to open for Dean Martin." SCTV website

[@BGNOLA]

You still see Harmonica Gang records in any Goodwill

[@richsouthall1937]

This had such a great ‘Goodfellas’ vibe and was done 10 years before that film. SCTV is a hidden gem!!

[@Nitedawg1]

Umm it’s a spoof on the 1960 oceans eleven film.

[@Teeveepicksures]

😂 Dude its a sinatra movie

[@richsouthall1937]

@@Nitedawg1Yo dude, I know it’s based on Oceans Eleven; I’m just saying it has a Goodfellas vibe.

[@PapagenoMF]

It's a parody of the original Ocean's Eleven film from the 60s. Long before Goodfellas.

[@DavidR2121]

Bittman @ 3:40 "...if that kid.....( flubs line and looks at the camera )....messes up." Levy is comedy perfection!

[@stevebornais1055]

I love the Skip and Bobby relationship.

[@vestibulate]

It's complicated.

[@spockboy]

Masterful satire. Don't really see it anymore these days.

[@timmeadows970]

" Thank you for that great round of indifference".

[@BGNOLA]

"For the same reason we haven't put a man on the moon yet! For the same reason the Japanese will never sell a car in this country!"

[@dariowiter3078]

😝😝😝😝😝

[@felicity4711]

Eugene Levy looks _awesome_ in this

[@johnholloway2445]

THIS WAS THE BEST...............THEY ALLWAYS DELIVERED

[@martinholmes-ue9ko]

Always

[@GlennDuke-yc5ky]

Those damn beatniks!

[@Cole-b4o]

Be careful what you say around them, especially if you're planning to do a heist.....

[@BunnyWatson-k1w]

At 9:48. "Piece of cake. With frosting on it." LOL.

[@keithpennington8259]

Man they went to a lot of work for that. Such classic comedy. Nothing like that today.

[@Cole-b4o]

& SCTV had a VERY low budget $ to work wirh....

[@america1st721]

now this is legendary comedy, please take notes SNL

[@PapagenoMF]

I don't think SNL is going to go study a 40 year old comedy show.

[@america1st721]

@@PapagenoMF SNL has no concept of comedy and SCTV does, as does "the show of shows", "laugh in", old "SNL"...

[@futuristica1710]

So … SNL needs to be like a 40 yo show …. 😂

[@america1st721]

@@futuristica1710 yes, a comedy show that is actually funny...what a concept?

[@robertburke2253]

Put your dreams away and hear me good, Pops, this is the thin one!

[@trappenweisseguy27]

Snazzy ‘59 Impala.

[@itopal63]

I love that Joe Candy cackle laugh. LOL it is so for effect, and so works!

[@tscully1504]

These folks were so good. Didn't see it at the time.

[@timmeadows970]

John Candy looks like he is on the set of JFK.

[@michaelwalker8144]

This is a masterpiece of comedy

[@dlxmarks]

I've always thought the 1960 _Ocean's 11_ is a dull self-indulgent slog of a film; basically the Rat Pack's expensive and glossy home movie. SCTV gave it what it deserved.

[@BethyKable]

They never let us down!😊

[@gigicalcio]

Brilliant!!!

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

I’d forgotten about Bill Needle.

[@davidscott3820]

Great! I both shared n saved! Sctv!! Outstanding!!!❤😂🎉

[@jerseyforhawks]

SCTV at its most Meta.❤

[@southerncross3638]

Excellent. 👍

[@kenglass7833]

Damn I never thought it could all go so bad !! Seemed fool proof. Next job best to go with Ten..........leave young Skip out of it !!!😆

[@johnheart6890]

Perfection!

[@Cole-b4o]

11:56 This scene contains just about every movie & old TV show Beatnik cliche in history! & then some! TOO funny. SCTV was Thee Best sketch comedy TV show ever, "OH YEEEAH!!"

[@NOcode]

Phenomenal

[@burningdaylights]

"I didn't tell him nothing, Herschel!" SMACK

[@starmanfaned]

Brilliant

[@Cole-b4o]

"The Harmonica Gang". 🤣😂

[@timmeadows970]

Bingo Dingo!

[@BigBennKlingon]

Anybody know the song the band is playing during the burlesque dance? Also Rick Moranis is actually playing those drums

[@ggregd]

Standard blues riff.

[@MrBillBenitez]

It was a perfect plan - why didn't it work?

[@josephmessina3587]

Used to love SCTV, unfortunately probably heavily censored or outright banned now on government owned TV.

[@travs.d.8142]

Masterpiece!

[@johnhanna1934]

“Put it back?”

[@philippebyrnes1213]

My favorite comedy show from Chicago since Bozo’s Circus. Maybe Elon could finally get the SCTV satellite into space. Coolsville.

[@theBaron0530]

Johnny Puleo and the Harmonica Gang!

[@stevepaul6955]

Their GI buddies lol.

[@keithshultz7436]

So much funnier than SNL!

[@Femur15]

SNL maybe had Jake ‘n Elwood, but SCTV had Bob ‘n Doug!

[@stevepaul6955]

COOL DADDY COOL !

[@MISTERASMODEUS]

Brilliant timely satire.

[@timmeadows970]

Imagine the movie they could have made based on this world.

[@redwatch.]

It sounds like he's singing M O A levin in the opening. Can anyone explain this? Is it just that it sounds better with the music than Maudlin's Eleven?

[@joewilson4151]

right in front of the curtain, right der Sammy

[@MrSpuzzz]

@13:14 did Peewee Herman steal this dance move from sctv? Or are they both parodying something from the sixties?

[@astolennova]

Needle is a hothead. But why are they all playing themselves?

[@michaelmisczuk1188]

squaresville

[@Gerhardium]

RIP Samalama Dingdong.

[@BGNOLA]

What kinda talk is that? There's beatniks around here!

[@michaelmisczuk1188]

harmonica gang

[@jamesbueker11]

Bingo Dingo

[@2TrackMind-c6i]

I enjoyed Second City sooo much more the SNL. It was straight up improv and was simply funnier, IMO. Candy's goofy laugh. 😆

[@SMytfa]

2:37 Is that Jodie Foster?

[@SCTVHQSketchArchive]

No

[@SMytfa]

@@SCTVHQSketchArchive I mean 2:38 I know she's not John Candy

[@grokeffer6226]

😊😂💰

[@billsmith5166]

I'd even throttle Skip. Sheesh. You remember that stand up gig Bobby got him? That Skip just ain't got it.

[@josephreilly6328]

Frank Sanitra got nothing on Herschel

[@klopptillyoudropp1263]

VaVOOM!

[@mcapps1]

I wonder who said this was funny.

[@fyodorpetrovich3096]

This is pretty damn awful! Low budget as fuck and only about 20 minutes in length! The hammy acting/singing/dancing is so bad it's comical!!!

[@gregoryfarshtey6856]

Um, you do know SCTV was a comedy show, right?

[@phnx4life]

Too Canadian to stomach. .

[@Femur15]

Beauty, eh?

[@adotsfinest3206]

All of these sucked I knew it at 5 still know it and not afraid to say it freaking sucks the big one

[@Nitedawg1]

Well a five year old would have no chance of understanding how many different levels of spot-on spoofing is going on here.

[@marks.3303]

So you haven't intellectually grown since you were 5. Thanks for letting us know.

[@Teeveepicksures]

It's not for people like you.

[@adotsfinest3206]

@@Teeveepicksures you know what I say holds merit or else it wouldn’t offend you

[@Teeveepicksures]

@@adotsfinest3206 You aren't operating on a level for this to be funny to you. That's OK. Just move on and live your life.

[@Paul-f7q]

Parody done well. SCTV 🫵✊️ always solid.