SCTV News - Earl is so positive, Floyd can’t take it!

SCTV NEWS: Earl’s look on the bright side of life has Floyd livid!
Also known as Second City TV (1976-1981) - SCTV Network 90 (1981-1983) - SCTV Channel (1983-1984). This classic Canadian sketch comedy launched many careers and went mostly un-noticed by US audiences save for a brief stint on NBC.
MAIN CAST INCLUDED:
John Candy,
Robin Duke,
Joe Flaherty,
Eugene Levy,
Andrea Martin,
Rick Moranis,
Catherine O'Hara,
Harold Ramis,
Tony Rosato,
Martin Short,
Dave Thomas.
Executive Producer: Andrew Alexander (78 episodes)
Series Directed by: George Bloomfield, Milad Bessada, John Blanchard...
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[@jadeblatz]

RIP Joe Flaherty, one of my favorite sketches and I haven't seen it in a long time, thanks!

[@JTupp96]

RIP Joe Flaherty

[@eblackadder3]

RIP Joe. Thanks for everything!

[@jonnyq680]

WHAT???? When???🤮

[@nz1229]

Earl Camembert: There's a happy side to this story, we'll be back tomorrow.

[@LadyGreyBlack]

I feel bad for the crew, since they've had to restrain both Earl and Floyd on separate occasions.

[@johnunkerman]

Yup. Floyd just couldn’t handle Earl’s attitude of gratitude 😆

[@wmbrown6]

@@johnunkerman - Earl was a devotee of the Happy Talk style of news presentation, of which this was but one manifestation.

[@roberthill799]

Joe was the funniest of the SCTV crew, who were all very funny.

[@jonnyq680]

30 minutes wildly funnier than 90 minutes of SNL !!!🤣

[@tcidolfan]

R. I. H. Joe Flaherty

[@jond1965]

Joe played so many great characters. Love SCTV.

[@jonnyq680]

Count Floyd! Arrrrooooo!

[@wmbrown6]

Earl was more like Happy Talk on steroids, whilst Floyd was more old-school.

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

Sometimes they have room in this skit they are elbow to elbow.

[@hankkingsley9300]

I guarantee you kids today have no idea what that teletype sound is I worked at a radio station that had one 40 years ago that thing just spit out more cheap paper with nothing on it I'm serious it was like typing on institutional brown paper towels from a roll just constantly clack clack clack clack clack thank God we don't use that crap anymore

[@johnunkerman]

You’re a lucky man to remember these days nonetheless. That’s a sound that used to represent to us the ‘real’ and un-objective news coming down the pipe. That’s before Reuters and the AP started feeding us only what fit their narratives. Good days to be alive back then. Annoying sounds and all…. Glad we got to see it. 🙏

[@hankkingsley9300]

@@johnunkerman don't forget the bells that would go nuts if something was really important. Plus the style of writing...left out a bunch of superfluous connecting words that you had to supply yourself if you read it on air.

[@johnunkerman]

@@hankkingsley9300 indeed. Talent and creative quick thinking was still a job requirement. Improvisational skills still mattered. Today, not so much. 😂

[@wmbrown6]

That sound effect was known as "Teletype Receiver" and came from the Major Records/Thomas J. Valentino library. Most of the time, SCTV played that SFX slightly sped up.

[@clipobserver]

Surprised the crew stopped Floyd from killing Earl.

[@goldenageflash5924]

This was genuinely funny! Almost like a spoof on Laugh In's Rowan and Martin...which in itself was was hilarious on its on

[@hankkingsley9300]

I never looked at it that way but I guess you could make that comparison except that Earl thought he was not a buffoon where dick Martin knew he was and played it that way.

[@wmbrown6]

@@hankkingsley9300 - Earl may have not thought of himself as a buffoon, but he also seemed to have no sense of humor.

[@harryputang5352]

Pot head vs Alcoholic ✌☺

[@johnunkerman]

😂

[@wmbrown6]

Happy Talk devotee vs. old school "need to know" newsman.

[@superfly3990]

You know, and I think that I can speak for everyone, Floyd "The Most Trusted Man in America" Robertson is Fantastic. What a great talent and journalist. Earl "The Squirrel" Camembert is a Bum !!

[@wmbrown6]

Earl's attitude in this edition sounded reminiscent of that of KGO-TV's "News Scene" main anchor (and executive editor) Van Amburg, as he told Mike Wallace in the "60 Minutes" piece "Local News: The Rating War" as aired March 10, 1974: " . . . that I do get involved, that I do solve problems, that we do things, that we get the old lady the house that she's been burned out of, that we get the money for the kid who's dying from leukemia, we get him an operation that he would not have gotten if we hadn't been here." I thought I heard at least one of those stories slightly and subtly rewritten for this sketch.

[@johnunkerman]

Great point 👍