By this time, Catherine O’Hara, Dave Thomas, and Rick Moranis had left “SCTV,” and soon after John Candy. By April 1983, NBC no longer aired the show in the U.S., and soon after it began airing on Cinemax.

All television and film promotional clips deleted due to copyright caution.

1983:
11. April 6, 1983. Catherine O’Hara: auditioned but didn’t get the part for the play “Middle Ages” and the Steve Martin film “The Lonely Guy.”
12. April 29, 1983. Martin Short: “SCTV.”
Martin mentions that NBC has cancelled the show, and so the search is on for another national distributor.
13. July 21, 1983. Harold Ramis: “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”
14. August 18, 1983. John Candy: “National Lampoon’s Vacation” and “Going Berserk.” Also shooting “Splash.” With a Dom DeLuise walk-on.
John mentions that “SCTV” will now be on Cinemax. (That’s Will Lee yelling, “You what!!??”)
15. August 23, 1983. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as The McKenzie Brothers: soon-to-be-released “Strange Brew.”
16. October 18, 1983. John Candy, with Fran Lebowitz: “Going Berserk” finally being released; hosting SNL this week.
17. November 16, 1983. Andrea Martin; “SCTV” now on Cinemax, beginning the following week.
Transcript:
[Music] thank you gentlemen
let me uh explain something to you about
this tonight not only do we have fine
guests like catherine o’hara
uh we also have alba ballard and her
costumed parrots
and the audience academy awards in most
countries uh they would force
this into three different shows here in
america
i’m serious in uh czechoslovakia this
would be three separate shows
and you’d be hunting for days in your tv
guide to find all three but
that’s why this country is so darn great
because
one one show
not only the academy awards for the
audience catherine o’hara but also alba
ballard and her costumed parrots
my first guest is one of the most
talented comedy performers or as paul
says
performers around today her work on sctv
is certainly unforgettable and
to remind you of how unforgettable it is
let’s take a look right now
at some of the things she has been
responsible for during the run of that
fine comedy program
ladies and gentlemen please welcome
catherine o’hara
[Music] you look very nice oh thank you thanks
for coming back i appreciate it nice to
see you again
this show’s great i can’t wait till we
get in toronto oh that’s right
we’re going to canada soon now tell me
about that dress what’s the material
there involved animals you know if it’s
it’s
it’s leather isn’t it yes yeah it’s very
nice is that um japanese leather
the cows were massaged really yeah
uh you look very nice
really they actually said this is
japanese leather in the castle yes they
they massage the cows to make it
uh what are you what are you doing now
that you’re you’re not on
the program are you no no that’s too bad
what what have you been doing since
i’ve been sleeping a lot and
uh auditioning learning how to audition
and uh trying to do that now uh
when i said too bad i mean it’s too bad
because we missed seeing your work on
the show
that’s what i meant now when you go out
it’s it’s hard for me to imagine you
having to audition though because
that’s a pretty good audition what we
just saw well i’m not used to it because
um
i got in second city at 73 that’s the
last time i really auditioned
and uh since then it’s all been work
that i’d get i’d either do second city
or
somebody’d ask for me from the show and
i wouldn’t have to audition but
since i left the show i’ve had to
actually i got called to audition for a
play off broadway and
and they asked me to audition because
they they’d seen me on the show and they
really liked me from that but they
didn’t know whether i’d be able to play
or not what was the play can you say
uh it’s called um middle ages oh i
didn’t get the part
but uh they were so excited to see me
there and they really went out of their
way to track me down to get me to the
audition
because they like me from the show and i
thought why don’t they just give me the
park there instead of making me audition
but um i got there and they were so
grateful that i’d showed up and they
kept saying thank you thank you and
talking about everything that i’ve done
on the show
and they loved me and then i read for
them and blew it
uh what went wrong i just i don’t know i
just was not used to audition
auditioning
what was the name really unnatural to me
what did you have to do it was a great
part it was um
it’s a girl it’s four people and their
two parents and two
younger people it takes place in a
country club
and uh the two uh younger people go from
the age of 14 to the age of 40.
and so i read two scenes one where i was
supposed to be in my 40s and one where i
was
supposed to be 14 and i was just so
stiff and
i wasn’t used to being on a stage and
having to move around and
i was standing just straight for the
whole audition at one point i thought i
better move and i turned around swap
moved right in a circle i had nowhere to
go just turn around and look back at
them
and uh just the worst so then somebody
told me about this book called
audition written by michael shurtcliffe
and i still don’t know what i’m doing
with auditions but this is an actual
manual to help you
it’s great it’s the best what kind of
things do they suggest well he has 12
guideposts i shouldn’t even i don’t know
what do i say about
circling on stage like you did is that
anything you want
yeah it should have got me the part it
should have worked that was the thing
that should have worked
no they have he has these guideposts and
their relationships and you’re just
supposed to think about
you know what you want from the other
person and he says always think that you
love the other person rather than not
liking them
because if if you go for something
positive that will give you so much more
to work with and oh i can’t even explain
the thing that was great about the book
for me i still don’t know how to use it
exactly or how to audition but
it just gives you so much to think about
that you forget about yourself for a
while yeah
and so have you have you had much luck
since the book
oh no i went and read for another film a
couple weeks ago and
there was nothing in the book about what
do you do if you show up
and the leading man is there to read
with you and you think he’s cute
yeah who was you can’t i couldn’t talk
who was the leading man
no you could say yeah i mean i guess i
couldn’t make any more of a fool of
myself than i did at the audition
it’s steve martin he did this they’re
doing a film
well that would that would certainly uh
make it jittery
i thought i was really psyched up for it
i thought it prepared but
he was the i arthur hiller’s director
it’s called lonely guy it’s a great
script but it’ll be a funny movie
and you you know for a fact you didn’t
get the part oh yeah i know
what nasty hussy did get it do you have
any idea
i’m sure someone granted deserved it
more than me but i i thought i did all
right on the reading part i’m sure i
didn’t do well enough but at least i
wasn’t too nervous about that but i just
couldn’t handle the
conversational part arthur hiller was so
nice of me oh you mean i believe i’m
telling you
i mean the reading part the actual
script reading you did okay yeah i did
well i thought i did all right at least
better than i’ve ever done what’s the
other part wasn’t good enough for the
for them but
but the uh just the chatting and they
were so nice and they’re being really
funny and entertaining me and i was just
huh
and arthur hillary said you’re from
toronto you know i i was in toronto went
to school in toronto
oh really i don’t know that i did
nothing i was just i just said that’s
what i i would do that pretty much
uh anyway there was one i’m sorry
there’s one scene uh
i thought i did the reading okay so once
it’s all about an orgasm and
and he’s i shouldn’t give away a c but
he’s doing something
that isn’t sexual really but it’s
turning her on
and this whole scene you have to keep
having orgasms and
and i just couldn’t i mean i thought
this is a real movie it’s you check them
out it’s a real movie
i think everyone auditioned naked i
wasn’t the only one
no i uh i i just the more i tried to do
uh you know lines like oh stop
it’s too good it’s too wonderful i just
oh i ended up sounding like my mother i
couldn’t
i couldn’t be natural i’m trying to have
an orgasm with this actor and these two
people i was like oh stop you’re oh
you’re wonderful uh we have to stop here
for just a second but we’ll be back
more with catherine o’hara
[Music] welcome back to the program ladies and
gentlemen catherine o’hara obviously is
here last time you were on the program
we talked about you staying up all night
you do that a lot huh
yeah a little too much i keep uh the
same hours as other people just
no different hours i’ll stay up till six
in the morning and then sleep eight
hours
you’ll sleep from six until uh what time
does that make in the afternoon i don’t
know you figure it out it’s gonna be two
wouldn’t it
six to noon is says six and uh two is
eight
i guess yeah now that seems nice i
believe now what do you do all night is
this uh
are you working or uh um
yeah i’m trying to write i uh after
auditioning for a lot of things about
getting them and
getting offered things i don’t want i
decided i’ll try to write something
maybe that’s the only way i’ll get
something
and uh i’ve been um
singing singing yeah i had a chance to
do a record deal right you had a chance
to do a record actually
when they found out it was supposed to
be a comedy album when they found out i
was going to sing more than talk they
changed it to a demo
i have a chance for a demo what does
that mean
you get it what is it well you put i
guess four songs or whatever you want to
do on a
tape and they either buy the idea they
don’t oh well still in all now
you said you’ve been offered things that
you don’t want any part of now what are
some of those
oh i shouldn’t say sure no no just some
films or
no mostly actually mostly offers are
very open like a chance to do a special
or
you know tv special you don’t want to do
a tv special i guess someday but
not today well that sounds like a pretty
good deal
don’t you think yeah
i guess so what else yeah just things
come up i guess um
on february did a fun thing that uh my
brother had this party for valentine’s
he had one
around christmas and we got this
orchestra together and a bunch of
singers and we did uh
sort of holiday songs at christmas then
we did another one valentine’s day
and it was all romance songs and john
kennedy emceed the evening
it was at the pale royale big ballroom
on the lakeshore in toronto
where my mom and dad at the first date
and uh was saying love songs and
um john kenny hosted in martin short who
was in sctv saying i got the world on a
string and funny valentine and
is that the kind of singing you do
yourself i guess well i love old
love songs yeah i did a i did one that
was um it was a marilyn monroe song i’ve
got my nerf
and uh it was great the best part of it
was the male backup
on this song it’s called kiss and and
the guys will go kiss me
hold me kiss love me
take me hold me four guys and tuxedos
did that for the whole song and
then near the end they go this this is
the moment all thrilled me
and the girls thrill me thrill me
with your charms take me take me
in your arms and make my life
[Music] thank you very much kathy appreciate you
coming back
catherine o’hara ladies and gentlemen we
have to go away for station
identification
we’ll be back to hand out more audience
more
[Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] thanks paul i uh i need i need to make
one one other announcement with the
gentleman who brought the manta ray
please retrieve it
we are not allowed to clean rays or
skates now this is not our policy
this is an rca corporation policy once
again my apologies for the inconvenience
there
uh my next guest is certainly one of the
funniest people on television today when
he is not appearing on this show
he can be seen on sctv also on this
network let’s take a look now
and see a little bit of martin short in
action on that program ladies and
gentlemen watch the monitors
and at home as always use your
television sets
has this ever happened to you
ladies and gentlemen please welcome mr
martin
martin elliot nice to see you again sir
well that’s uh that’s very funny
thank you really nice and you yeah uh
you do terrific work on the show
thank you for coming back um in addition
to stuff like that you do some people
uh not famous characters but characters
that you have invented
uh ed grimley ed grimley is a character
that i do
um kind of a visual character he kind of
talks like this you know
and his hair is up you really have to
have the whole visual again
but his hair is up i mean it’s it’s way
up isn’t it
it’s stuck up this high yeah it’s it’s
that concept of when in doubt go big and
physical and don’t worry about the words
uh now did you ever know anybody with
his hair way up there what what is that
well actually but you you find that you
get these characters from uh people you
know there was a guy
who used to live uh below my brother
named craig stubing and he was kind of
an
80s um screamer he was an 80s screamer
uh kind of uh he was a designer really
it’s not so it’s more of a wine 80s you
know the kind of uh
stereotypical screamer of the 60s that
jonathan winters did for example
is out you know now it’s more whiny it’s
more tired exhausted
i’m sorry i just have problems with it
generally that’s a general attitude
i was once i was once passing
his apartment below my brother and
and this is truthful he was a designer
and he used his apartment as an office
and i heard him screaming on the phone
he was angry
and he said i had ordered a peggy lee
white now what the hell goes here
a peggy lee white yeah so i i took that
voice completely and did it on stage in
in second
city yeah and actually uh uh i used to
do a routine as hairdresser actually you
can help me with this
when i point to you yeah you say you’re
kidding okay
so he’s doing someone’s hair and he’s
saying you know i know liz per
liz taylor personally you’re kidding
absolutely
i remember in 1968 when she and dicky
were staying at the king eddie hotel i
did liz’s makeup
you’re kidding i wouldn’t lie i remember
this one day
i was doing liz’s eyes and you really
are violent too and dickie kind of came
bursting into the hotel room and the two
of them got into the most vitriolic
argument i have ever seen i mean i
literally freaked out
and they shot me into a washroom with a
ball of scotch i remember it beverly in
15 minutes i drank the bottle got drunk
and sobered up again i mean i was
literally freaking out
but one day i was doing that on stage
and and i looked and and the guy whose
name i will let’s say
uh was the actual guy the actual guy
whose voice was clearly no exaggeration
of this
was sitting right there so i quickly
went from this to saying that liz taylor
is so dynamic because she has this power
over people i looked down and said you
know you know she’s a really good run
[Laughter] and change it didn’t get any last but i
didn’t get punched out well that’s good
uh you don’t know if the guy was
flattered offended you don’t care no
no not really well i mean it was his
voice i mean he can’t deny that that’s
what he spoke
uh we have to go away for a commercial
martin and we’ll be right back
[Music] [Applause] [Music] martin short is here uh where does that
begin if you’re doing an impersonation
of a person
well it’s tricky uh if you want to do uh
i did jerry lewis on one of the shows
and and
i i the lewis the young kid louis was
you know i had that from a long time ago
but the hardest thing was getting the
today lewis and i found that
once i cracked the laugh and i would
listen to the laugh and finally i
realized it was just
it was kind of a variation of london
lee’s laugh but it wasn’t it was my
so then once again you know the thing is
uh
that uh they’re afraid of a
perfectionist the studios
and if the jerry lewis ain’t gonna get a
distribution deal because of some focus
12 year old with the pimples on his face
who’s head of the studio this week who
doesn’t know from hardly working or the
errand boy or whatever
he only knows from eva braun with the
big for hey but the airplane crashing
through the thing
where is jerry lewis supposed to find
the love and the caring and the feeling
and the good and the nice
and even if you do it’s not the good
kind because of the variation of the
different thing
now um uh we have some videotape of you
doing
somebody that i guess if you thought
about it it would become apparent that
sooner or later people would be doing
him
but you i guess you were the first one
to actually do this man yes i believe so
yes
all right this would be uh it’s a tang
commercial a tang commercial
and you want to tell them who you’re
doing or just let them be pleasantly
surprised if they don’t find out then
it was okay let’s just we’ll roll up
we’ll see you all right this is
once again mr martin short a scene from
a recent
sctv television program
that’s amazing that’s amazing oh it’s
wonderful
right on the money uh tell me about uh
now what is the status of the program
now uh sct well i guess sctv is uh
cancelled
it’s it’s it’s not gonna be on at 12 30
to two on nbc that we know
we’ll probably be moved to 4 30 to 6 on
sunday
opposite catholic mass that seems to be
the now there there must there must be
another life for this program don’t you
think no there are certain
i mean there are discussions going on
about different people interested in
doing the show and i think that
we’d like to do a movie together
everyone gets along so great and
they’ve known each other for so many
years in such a good working situation
that i don’t think
anyone wants it to end you know yeah
and but you don’t you can’t say it at
this time what’s what’s going on well no
nothing’s really resolved right now i’m
just uh
hanging out down here cleaning fish well
you’re certainly a terrific addition to
the an already great cast and uh you
know good luck
with everything martin and thank you
very much for being here again thank you
david
mr martin short ladies and gentlemen
we’ll be right back
this won’t work got you covered indiana
no [ __ ] okay thank you folks uh martin thank you
very much
i want to thank our student audience you
folks were terrific as always
also my thanks to muriel hemingway
tonight jane curtin again mr martin
short from nbc sports marv albert
uh paul shaffer and the organization
thanks guys for being here
uh also thanks to bill wendell our
announcer monday
actress louise will be here have a good
weekend good night folks
[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back my next guest is a very
funny man who has been involved with
second city also the motion picture
is animal house stripes caddyshack and
his latest project
national lampoon’s vacation which he
directed and which opens july 29th
please welcome mr harold ramos harold
uh i thought you were uh very funny in
the stripes you played bill murray’s
buddy then didn’t yeah i did a very nice
job of that also i saw this
motion picture national lampoon’s
vacation and i thought it was very funny
and uh now i saw it in a screening room
by myself
and i laughed at actually one other guy
and we laughed but when you’re putting
the movie together
and there is nobody around to watch but
you guys and you’ve done it and done it
and done it how do you know
that it’s going to get laughs when
people see it in the theater uh you
don’t
yeah we we laugh on the set a lot chevy
i have a real weakness for chevy so
as he would do the scenes i would i
would be hauling
in fact spoiling takes occasionally
laughing out loud behind the camera
and that’s the last time i laughed once
we wrapped the film that’s it you’re
going to an editing room and you’re
sitting a dark room with an editor for
hundreds of hours and uh just dead
totally dead
so until you you’ve got the film there
and uh do
before it is released to the theaters do
audiences see it at all
yeah we tried it uh three different
times on audiences that we
dragged down to warner brothers and made
them watch a rough cut without
music and we pretty much could tell
where we were
strong and where we were weak so now
does their reaction make
a major difference or just a little
touch-up stuff
uh it could be major yeah we in our case
we um we had one ending shot
and it happens a lot in comedy uh it’s
very hard to end because you never know
where your biggest laugh is going to
come
and occasionally if your biggest laugh
i’ve worked on films where the big laugh
came
like 40 minutes into the film which
makes the last
hour pretty slow so uh we had uh our
film was peaking a little early
so we wrote a new ending and shot it uh
with john candy as a matter of fact
now this film was was based on uh what
was originally a short story
uh john hughes wrote and the original
ending which is the one
you shot first can you tell them what
that was oh
the film basically involves chevy plays
a
father with two uh young teenage
children he’s promised him the vacation
of their lives
uh they’re headed cross-country in a car
to disneyland we couldn’t call it
disneyland
because uh disney company likes to sue
sure they’re pretty
but they’re protecting they don’t want
people you know screwing around with
mickey and that kind of stuff
so in the original ending uh chubby they
get to the park i don’t want to give it
away but uh
they don’t have the time they bargained
for so chevy gets so incensed
he buys a movie star map and drives to
this character we called him roy wally
for walt disney
drives to his house with a gun he’s
recently purchased
crashes through the gates and makes walt
disney
sing and dance for him at gunpoint so
but uh it was too soft the ending was
too soft so
we went for something a little stronger
now in the in the uh the short story
didn’t didn’t he actually shoot
he shoots him in the leg shoots disney
in the lake
but he did not roy wally did not get
shot in your original yeah
no yeah uh this is uh it’s a very funny
film you know who was who was i thought
just great in it and he’s only in it for
a second
is eugene levy in the in the very
beginning he he does just a physical
move there
that makes you laugh really hard i mean
that’s a real sign of good work
well he plays a car salesman who uh he’s
does
the trip begins with chevy picking up
the brand new station wagon and
it’s a bait and switch he gets there and
the car he wanted is not there and
eugene levy
plays a very sleazy car salesman but he
does one great take the first one i
think
chevy rolling up now this movie has some
uh myth kind of uh urban myth popular
beliefs that aren’t true kind of things
you know an animal house was sort of
based
on that also uh what would give us an
example of one in
vacation in vacation well there’s the uh
it’s it’s apocryphal but uh people
withdraw with dogs when they travel with
their dogs occasionally they just uh
forget and leave them tied to the bumper
when they when they drive off down the
road and then
they start hearing strange noises
[Music] and that’s one of that’s in the film but
while we were shooting
we were shooting in durango colorado and
we were working out of a holiday in
there and
sure enough someone saw a station wagon
pulling out of the holiday inn with a
dog tied to the boat
now did you actually see it or did a
friend of yours no that it was
definitely confirmed
[Laughter] was uh was were you able to save the
dogs
oh that’s good uh it’s a that also is a
very funny scene in the film and then
the one when they got the
grandma up on top of the uh yeah that’s
uh
interesting stuff we have to pause here
harold we’ll be back uh to continue
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back to the show we have uh
some some uh a couple of minutes from
the motion picture national lampoon’s
vacation harold is there anything we
should know before we take a look at it
here
uh just that it’s uh late at night the
first day out on the road
and chevy’s been pushing it a little bit
he’s been driving for a while this is
the happy american family on a vacation
of a lifetime
and uh watch the monitors and as always
at home damn’s all screwed up
very funny
very nice
the the two kids in the movie are very
good also aren’t they oh yeah anthony
michael hall and dana baron
we looked at about 300 children they’re
very cute very good uh
before you got into the world of uh big
time motion pictures
one of the jobs you had was editing
playboy party jokes
yeah tell me about that what kind of a
job is that
this is a job i had been teaching school
and freelancing a little for
newspapers in chicago and i i went to
playboy it was always my dream to work
with playboy because i’d grown up in
chicago meet half hang around in your
pajamas
yeah drink pepsi so i went to apply for
the job
i didn’t know what job i was applying
for i just showed him some of my stories
and uh
he said we’ve got an opening it’s a
party jokes editor we’re considering
a high school kid for the job
[Laughter] so i thought all right this is a job i
need so
i he gave me a stack of jokes about 500
jokes he said pick the best ones write
write up the ones you like in our style
so the jokes were turned out to be
typical of the jokes that came in when i
got the job but
the average joke was set on a farm and
usually involves
one or two farm animals and
a salesman so i went right for the
playboy style i changed the farmer to a
young ad exec
in new york and i did a good job so
they hired me and after that i got uh i
read a thousand jokes a day
oh my god and 99 were
jokes that i’d heard the day before
reading my thousand
no kidding yeah about 99 repeats
and from all over the country and and
europe and europe
and rural areas also a lot of rural uh
areas yeah
also i want to mention real quick your
uh little girl is in this movie isn’t it
yes yes she plays
it’s an awful thing you have done to her
you’ve cast her as a just a terrible
circumstance for a young girl is she all
all right after that oh yeah she next
she said she’d like a part with with
dialogue though uh
do you want to tell them what it is we
should well there’s a poor farm family
uh
the cousins that they visited his own
daughter keep that in mind
uh well chevy meets the cousins and
their cousin is played by randy quaid
who’s quite a good actor and uh
when as he introduces the kids uh my
daughter is
is playing randy’s daughter daisy mabel
and uh
chevy says well how are you how are you
little girl and she doesn’t speak and
randy says uh
she was born without a tongue there you
go you’re born without a tongue so
she whistles like a bird and eats like a
horse
uh yeah we’ll be right back folks
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] thanks bill uh harold pleasure meeting
you thank you very much and good luck
continued success to you sir my
apologies to mary lou larson we ran out
of time she will be rescheduled for
another night i’m awfully sorry about
that
also my thanks to linda ellerbe uh and
thanks to paul and bill folks have a
good weekend thank you and good night
[Music] [Music] [Applause] i want to thank you for letting me on
the show you’re doing us a favor by
coming back
really no i appreciate this what do you
want to do tonight i don’t care whatever
you want to you know
anything is fine with me i like pretty
much everything you do john it’s
what’s the deal a fly big fly yeah well
you’re used to that you’re living on a
farm now right on the farm yeah
[Music] well that’s not a fly
that’s wasp see that’s a walk that is
the biggest wasp
i have ever seen huh you got an animal
act on here
oh i don’t know now anyway when you come
out tonight
uh we just talk about the farm and uh
yeah yeah
just in your family aha
you see you got a nest up there oh yeah
got a big watch all right
look well we should get that down yeah
we’ll well maybe the weekend
well we’ve got to do it now look at the
size of them uh i’m gonna have to go
john uh like the sizing will be my fifth
okay i’ll see
i’ll see you out there it’ll be great
don’t worry we’re gonna take care of
this now you know we’re off tomorrow
maybe
saturday so i do it now i mean a bite
from that could be fatal okay well
i’ll see out on there david i wouldn’t
don’t leave it
[Music] as i mentioned before we have a great
show tonight uh two of
our uh favorite folks are here john
candy my first guest tonight
a very funny writer and performer he was
a member as you know of the cast of sctv
which was on this network and he can
currently be seen in the motion picture
national lampoon’s vacation
and soon in a film called going berserk
please welcome
john candy
[Applause] hmm
thank you very much for coming here
thank you you’re a uh
you’re a very nice man and uh when you
perform on the screen
no you are you’re a nice guy but and
that’s one of the qualities that uh
comes through when you perform and i
and i think that’s why you’re so popular
in the work you do in addition to being
a very funny guy
and i reciprocate i’ll say the same
thing about you wonderful guy you don’t
need to say that
i want uh so easy doing this show thank
you very much for coming back
now uh is this true that you bought a uh
a house in the country
and tell us what country in canada
right near mellonville
good place we um i was sitting on the
toilet one day
uh looking at the wand ads and
i wanted to get out of the house i was
living in and i saw this
great good thing you’ve just been
sitting at the dining room table
some great thoughts come out of there
and uh
it’s a country estate 10 acres pond barn
now estate that you know manicured
shrubs and
a lot of images in my mind oriental
gardens and so forth
and the price was right so i said rose
honey i got it
this is it rose this is my wife i see i
yelled out
so i went out there that day now how far
out really seriously
40 miles outside of toronto in a
snowstorm
and bought the place no real estate
agent
i didn’t notice the running water in the
snowstorm
that was going through the house oh
through the house yeah
it didn’t dawn on me i just it was my
first house and i bought a house and it
was great
uh-huh and afterwards oh i get it for
you don’t worry i got it right there
buddy
and uh turned out i got uh swamp
property i moved in in july they
wouldn’t let me come in in the spring
when the water was running
[Laughter] so i had a lot of fun with that i’ve
been doing that for three years
it’s actually every movie i do kind of
pays for another stone
so so you’re trying to create a landfill
there to offset the swamp
we’re on a i learned about water tables
i know nothing about we’re on a real
high one
there’s a lot of water running through
our place our house is here and the
water’s up here
yeah and it wants to get over there
[Laughter] and it does sure it goes right through
now i’ve channeled it all around it now
my grass turned brown
so now my lawn is no good so now i have
to put an irrigation system in
that seems odd because no no it’s not
boring but it seems odd that you have to
irrigate a place that’s already
under water pretty much i have to tap
the sources where i tapped it already
i see but a lot of crush stone
a weeping tile a lot of what weeping
tile weeping
goes underneath it yeah i had to do the
whole foundation of the house
and dig that out so it’s been fun living
there it’s
like a relaxing way to yeah now ma’am
just make an observation here
you don’t strike me as as a uh a country
kind of guy you seem like a man who
enjoys the niceties of an urban
circumstance yeah
and if i didn’t put so much money in
that house i would be doing that
okay you know nobody will believe me
anymore
do you farm this land up there yes yes i
actually bought a tractor
this summer an old 1947 massey harris
and uh the lines aren’t exactly even
it’s my first time i plowed the field
you plow now what
a field what will you plant uh just
grass
10 acres i don’t want to push it i don’t
want to push it grass i can deal with i
don’t want to push it with barley or
anything no
no you got to look after that now is one
you can kind of deal with
is your wife happy up there does she
feel kind of isolated and remote
that’s that’s a good way of putting it
yeah
i mean we even got a choice at this
point how close is your nearest neighbor
they’re they’re pretty close i mean
there’s about 10 houses on the street
and they’re far enough you can you know
their house is looking at distance and
it’s very pretty
it’s like an andrew wyeth painting but
you are happy up there yeah i love it up
there all right that’s good yeah
aside from all that we have to go away
for a commercial and when we come back i
want to talk about your trip cross
country
okay just like the movie you were in yes
uh john candy and i will be right back
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] hi there john candy is here
uh before we go on john tell us about
sctv it’s now going to be on as we
mentioned a
kind of a cable on a table yeah yeah
they were um
excommunicated from nbc
[Applause] so to speak are you going to be part of
the new no i left the show
oh that’s
[Laughter] is there a chance that you will be
making guests oh yeah i’ll be in and out
of there yeah
doing some work on it but it’s for me
right now
well you were at it for a long long time
because about 10 years i’ve been with
second city uh from the stage show
through the tv show and i was going to
stick around for a watch really you know
you reach a point you know i couldn’t um
there wasn’t much more i could offer the
show
yeah so i guess new blood comes in yeah
but you were you were terrific on that
trip
it was a great show to do oh yeah tell
me about your trip cross country where
did it begin
why did it begin and what happened
well it was one of those i hate flying i
don’t like flying and uh
i used to love cross country drives when
i was a kid
and it’s you know when you’re a kid what
you remember as a kid
really isn’t what happened we left
some things still stick like how long is
it going to take are we almost there
yeah you start playing the mileage game
you know and you start hitting posts all
the time you know
we left los angeles to head for toronto
my wife my daughter and myself
i was very concerned because she’s three
and how she’s going to deal with a long
trip
she was great i was uh i was like this
is this a new car an old car there’s a
new car i leased the car down the states
in los angeles and we’re gonna drive it
back and spend the summer up at the farm
and then drive it back it sounds good it
was great
we started i got through to oklahoma
and it all fell apart what happened in
oklahoma
i wasn’t even speeding that much
i still don’t think i was going that
fast i didn’t see him
i didn’t see uh i saw lights flashing on
the side and that was it
i looked around and all of a sudden the
cherries came on
so he pulls me over and he goes for his
gun well he sees me come out
down here in the back and uh they took
my license away
in oklahoma they can take your license
physically take your license no kidding
i didn’t know that yeah just for
a minor infraction apparently so yeah
55.
does it say 56
[Laughter] one of those guys then you do 55.
yeah all right now i think you’d better
pull over and have a coffee
i said where are you toronto you plan to
get there in the next hour
no you better slow down go grab a coffee
yeah he let me off he gave me a bit of a
break now how do you get your license
100
down to 50. oh what you do is you uh
you’re driving
the rest of the trip now it’s with a
permit like you have to drive with an
adult
and if you get caught again in another
state you can get arrested
there are certain states creeping
towards new york
that uh they will take you in jail if
you don’t have the money
whatever that figure is that they have
in their head at the time
have you got 612 on you
no all right come on with me let’s
you’re go make these things up as they
go yeah
and that wasn’t bad enough i started i
was doing the speed limit all the way
back
i thought all right all right i don’t
wanna get caught no i get to the buffalo
to the
to the canadian customs you’re home free
i’m home free sure the kid at the booth
recognizes me
hi miss larue how are you come on in my
friend
oh that’s an american car isn’t it yes
it is
oh well just go over to see that guy
over there and uh they’ll be fine he’ll
just give you papers no problem
and i found one of the oldest uh one of
the oldest customs officials
uh sitting there i think it was his last
day or something he was just waiting
he was just reading a paper you know
drinking coffee and i stood in front of
him about five minutes
and some young kid and all these kids
recognized me and they wanted to help
and just as one kid was about to say
i’ll take care of he said no he’s mine
[Laughter] and he just folded it up i said it’s
american car i said yes it is i’m a
canadian though
she can’t come in what do i do
go back
i can’t believe what you’re saying and
it’s raining now
and my daughter’s crying and my wife is
starting to cry
and i’m ready to kill him and he’s uh
he says you don’t understand do you you
just don’t understand
he says this is canada this is canada
that’s an american car
yes a canadian could have leased that
car to you you’re taking a job away from
a canadian
i said well wait a minute i don’t follow
your logic here you know i’m not gonna
leave it here i’m not stealing a car i’m
bringing it back yeah
he says all right after a long rigmarole
he gave me three days in the country and
514 dollars
which i had just lucky for me and i i
pulled that out and uh he said you got
three days
you take the car in and get it out yeah
or we’re gonna pound your car did you
then you gotta turn it lucious you know
do you keep it or turn it loose
no i kept it okay i went down to customs
downtown in
go toronto ahead you got the car for the
whole summer that’s good
canada we’re going to pause station
identification
uh we’ll be back
[Applause] [Music] yes tonight on late night join us for a
special all entertainment show a salute
to good times with connie chung
connie chung is that right and a man
who’s written down everybody’s name he
ever met what a show
[Applause] well tonight on late night join us for a
special all entertainment show a salute
to good times with who else connie chung
and a man who’s written down the name of
everyone he’s ever met
it was not what i had expected from what
they did before welcome back uh monday
on this program ladies and gentlemen we
get calls all the time what are you
doing monday well connie chung will be
here monday
and i’ll also meet a man who has written
down the name of everyone who he has
ever met his name is lowell davis by the
way
terry garr will be later on this program
or be here later on this program and
john candy
is here now uh and you were telling us
about the cross-country trip you’re also
it is it two movies that are out now uh
going berserk
vacation is out now vacation is on i’m
sorry that’s doing quite well isn’t it
yeah yeah didn’t get a piece of that one
either
and going berserk what is that that’s a
film
i did for universal last summer will be
coming out in november with joe flaherty
and eugene levy and david steinberg
directed that
and a movie called splash coming out in
february
ron howard directed with eugene levy and
tom hanks and daryl hannah
and these and shacky green these are
funny obviously yeah
yeah what is splash about
splash yeah it’s a mermaid movie is what
it is
um i play the brother of tom hanks and
he falls in love with his mermaid
oh so
i just want to tell you hello everybody
i love new york in june
[Laughter] i just want to tell you something this
man is my twin brother yes
my mother had a very hard time
i just wanted to wish him luck i think
you’re terrific i watch you all the time
and um what what what
i just have the feeling the whole stage
is going to go like this goodbye
everybody i just came in to say hello
thank you sir
that’s why i like coming on your show
tom de louise i’m deloise yep
and uh did you work with this man before
never seemed like a very nice guy i’ve
never met him before
very funny man but uh it was nice to see
him just sort of great to see him yeah
yeah now
i just saw him the other night in a
movie
david
look on the back of my neck
there’s something crawling there yeah
did it come from that nest well it could
have yeah
it’s a wasp yeah would you mind uh
flicking it off be very careful all
right
okay that does it that does it i’m going
to take care of this david can i have
that fogger and sack you keep behind
you don’t you don’t need no no i want to
do this i want to get it out now
you got people coming out don deluise
could have got bit he’s gonna lost it on
your hand
so john you don’t have to i want to do
this i want to do this
i want to take care of this all right i
want this sealed off i don’t want any
watts in the audience aren’t even the
ladder over here please sean you don’t
hold on
just david and back trust me let me do
this all right let me do this all right
if you don’t get a long broom and an
acetylene torch
right but
[Applause] john you know we could uh the after the
show they can get it right out of there
believe i’d like to just kind of warm
them up there there they are
that got him that got him that got him
mad
that got me home they see the broom
i see the broom oh yeah
done all right can i do anything for you
no no really it’s fine just start the
show david i’ll have it all fine
just go on with the show okay go on with
the show i’ll be on a few minutes
all right uh okay we’ll um
well while john’s uh tightening up with
our
last problem we’ll uh we’ll go away now
we’ll be right back with uh who knows
what else
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you gentlemen paul shaffer
and the band folks and uh we’re happy to
have them uh
my my next guest here is uh
it’s always a pleasure to welcome her to
this program she is a
fine actress who was uh last time she
was on the show she was just getting
ready to go
[Applause] there’s some more trouble with dom
deluise who knows right
i got him great
thank you
you got some uh we’re all in here you
got some nasty
not to worry you got some nasty
glad i did thank you very much buddy
david thank you come out and see us
anytime let me get rid of these
all right
i don’t know much about medicine but
those were some nasty looking bites
i i’d have those looked into anyway
everybody who helped out with the phone
calls and i will receive one of these
lovely late night with david letterman
sponges and
my thanks again to everyone who
participated that i’m sorry that woman
sound like she might have been steamed
my first guest tonight became famous as
co-hosts of their own television program
the great white north and there they are
they have just completed their first
movie together entitled strange brew
soon to be released and we’re going to
meet them now and see if they have been
affected by all of their hollywood
success please
welcome bob and doug mckenzie
[Music] [Applause] [Music] i i’m a little confused and i’m sorry
about this i can never remember
who is bob who is doug oh i’m bob
mckenzie this is my brother doggy how’s
it going
hey no we got all this one story
it seems hard to believe that you could
get all this in one yeah you are
you do look a little different now what
is the reason for uh the way you’re
dressed here
we we’re hip yeah we did a movie
in hollywood and uh we was on uh melrose
and uh got some uh hip
hollywood clothes this is how they dress
down there melrose is a very
kind of fashionable trendy sort of
boutique street
that’s what we heard yeah so we went
down there eh
geez these shades are so dark i can
hardly see maybe not me i’m leaving mine
on
how’s it going now it’s pretty good now
you it doesn’t bother you to go out like
this huh
oh wow some people have laughed at us
say but
so i mean you know when you’ve uh
achieved a certain level of notoriety
you got to take some of it hey look at
his shoes hey zoom in on his shoes
they look like bowling shoes
not mine look at his his looks like
girls running shoes take off they are
not
now it’s certainly colorful you normally
you guys were in the heavy kind of khaki
colored parkas and stuff and
okay here’s what happened david like we
was uh it was like doing this sweating
at 100 degrees heat
and uh we had the opportunity to cut the
lining of our coats out
but then we knew winter was coming so
then where would we be
you’d be screwed yeah can you say that
i don’t know but you would sure now
let’s let’s talk a little bit about your
movie you guys in addition now who have
been affected by the whole hollywood
experience put together your own
press release press kit here yeah now
what is is this unusual for
the stars of the movie to do their own
press kit well would you don’t look at
me you’re on the hot seat
well yes it is a little unusual we
believe that they needed our help and
expertise
so we decided to offer them what kind of
stuff would we find in here if we
well like you find stuff like a glossary
of
terms a of what it is when you’re a
hoser
right so how to know certain words like
the word holzer
like proper use of the word a you should
get some smokes for here
yeah that’s a beauty idea how many got
any smokes
a big fat pack so it would build up my
biceps all right we’ll get you some
smokes now you were
you were saying uh what was it a yeah uh
know how to use the word a know how to
use when the when to use the word beauty
and to what it may apply now that one
tell me when you use the word one
earring
that’s very nice that earring for
example you know way that’s a beauty
earring i could only
i could only buy them in a set it’s real
hard so i got two
you want it well thank you very much
that’s awfully nice here thank you i’ll
just put that over here
see he’s new york he hasn’t gone
hollywood because he just put his uh
earring over there and now you guys also
in here you have uh
you supply your own review of the film
well we wanted to save the reviewers
some trouble
[Laughter] so we thought if we wrote some of those
things we’ve seen on zella gay like
brilliant
bravo all that stuff where you didn’t
even know what the name of the movie was
yeah
i think that’s very thoughtful of you
for example here one of them cheech and
chong have never been funnier
oh that was when we got bored with it
and started to get funny i see
all right let me sit in the hot seat now
okay you guys want to change seats all
right well while they’re changing seats
uh we’ll
take a break here and come back to
continue talking with uh
bob and doug now all right now as part
of our continuing effort to keep you
entertained we took our cameras down to
the streets of new york
to ask people what they would like to
see on late night television
i would like to know more about
condiments and sources
i’d like to know more about condiments
and saucers my topic today
is sources and condiments i will discuss
the difference between a source and a
condiment
i will discuss what horseradish is a
source or a condiment
and i will discuss how horseradish is
manufactured
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] welcome back to the program dave thomas
rick moranis are here ladies and
gentlemen enough enough for the
christmas and uh
we’re happy to have you guys here thanks
it’s uh we’re on tour promoting the
movie so we thought we’d stop by your
show
do you guys tour well do you enjoy that
uh
yeah yeah we do it’s uh it’s been a long
haul though
until late at night sometimes we’re in
uh la dallas chicago cleveland boston
and now here and then we’re going to
toronto to open the picture on uh
friday it opens everywhere but that’ll
be very exciting being back home in
toronto i think so really
i think so it seems like it should
you’re not looking forward to it no i am
looking forward to it it’s been working
on the movie for a year so i’m glad it’s
finally opening
and you’re talking about ourselves for
10 days straight and we found out that
it
is possible to od on your own ego really
you know
i haven’t haven’t had that experience
you’re only on every night i mean you
guys going back to toronto it
seems like it ought to be a kick well
actually the picture opened in edmonton
last weekend
um the world’s largest shopping center
opened in edmonton and they launched a
theater by
uh introducing this this new theater
complex with our movie
yeah so um that’s where the characters
were actually born and i’m sorry we
couldn’t get up there but we were in
dallas for some reason
so um we’re promoting in dallas that’s
the reason no but we couldn’t get back
to edmonton i mean i wanted to go and
you wanted to stay in
thousands of miles apart let’s talk
about this later anyway we were looking
over at some attention the information
about you guys this afternoon and you
were actually nominated for
canada’s highest civilian award is that
true is that
yeah what is the award thank you
thank you won’t do any good it’s uh the
order of canada
yeah we were beat up by norman jewison
we’ll get him
norman jewison is a film director yes
and uh he won the highest civilian award
and uh
who gets to vote on this i think uh a
bunch of guys in hockey
parliament the toronto maple leafs the
montreal teams get together
between periods before training camp and
they sit around and talk about films and
they gave it to norman jewison
they loved in the heat of the night you
know that was who else would have uh
been granted this award oh all kinds of
people uh
usually scientists and inventors but
they give them token awards to the arts
yeah so you still get a shot this is a
lifetime achievement award you’ve got
much much more ahead of you yeah well
we’re hoping we think
maybe after the sequel we’ll get it yeah
now how did that strike you being
honored like that by your homeland was
that
a little uh well actually anybody
anybody can be nominated and it was just
one guy that nominated us and um
winning is the tough thing that’s a lot
of times yeah yeah and we lost
so it’s it felt bad to lose now this was
the first
first movie that you guys have made and
i know that uh you there were people you
wanted
to have in your movie max von now for
example that’s a pretty big
max is in it max we got but there were
some that you yeah we offered uh
cameo rolls to all right let me
interrupt you and we’ll
announce who this would be sort of like
the announcing of the uh this is the
segway is this uh yeah
we got to go away for station i
we’ll find out who they would like to
have had in their movie and and why they
ain’t
we’ll be right back i would like more
information on sauces
a source is a dressing it’s something
that you would put
on top of a pudding or put on top of a
salad
or put on top of pasta but put on top of
anything it’s
a liquid substance
[Music] [Applause] it’s actually for this show just another
night
well tonight on late night shark hunter
captain frank mundus will be here also
actress mary kay place
and a special edition of stupid pet
tricks plus a look at new york city
street etiquette
[Music] thanks mom welcome back to the program
ladies and gentlemen
dave thomas and rick moranis are here
tonight uh later in this program you’ll
meet graham nash and tomorrow
actress mary kay place legendary shark
hunter captain frank mundus whom i know
you guys have worked with uh for years
and years he did yeah
that vegas act for a while it was so
successful uh also we’ll have the stupid
patrick’s that will be
tomorrow night now we’ve done some of
those too in our days yeah stupid
yep uh before we left we’ve talked about
uh
some of the people you would like to
have had in your film yeah did you
actually approach these
yeah we offered cameos to woody allen
steven spielberg and uh ebert and siskel
and we were turned down by all the
people we wanted to work with
uh sure now what would they have done to
folks um
well the thing for uh spielberg was we
have a part in the movie where uh we’re
racing towards oktoberfest and
we weren’t going to be able to make it
in time and uh one of us was going to
reach for the radio
call ask for a patch in call hollywood
and get spielberg cut to spielberg in
his office
sitting talking to an alien he picks up
the phone and says
yeah uh-huh well where are you in your
story right now yeah
sure you can do it yeah i would go ahead
do it and then the cars were going to
fly
you know at that point but he said he
didn’t want to act he said after blues
brothers he’d had it with acting
so uh but i know that he was a and still
is a big fan of the stuff you guys do
one
yeah uh what about woody allen what did
you have planned there’s a sequence in
the
theater where the movie is playing in
the movie where um people are
badmouthing it we wanted to pull woody
allen from behind one of the billboard
one of the
sandwich boards and explain why the
movie was better than it was the way he
did to mcluhan
but he said after blues brothers he just
didn’t want to
[Laughter] and what about the the movie reviewers
cisco and ebert
we wanted them to review the movie yeah
after the movie and they said
no it would be a conflict so now they’re
reviewing it next week on their show
these are all great ideas though but i’d
like to review their show if we got some
time
we have uh we have some time to take a
look at a piece of a film
from the motion picture strange brew
soon to be released is going to be
released in this country simultaneous
simultaneously this friday what are we
going to look at here david clip
uh a little bit of a chase sequence
uh which goes underwater and uh it isn’t
self-explanatory
but to explain it it’d probably take
about a a lot more time than you’d be
willing to give me so
it’s it’s a self-explanatory clip and a
chase scene and uh woody allen will not
be in this
piece of film
first of all tell me about the the stunt
that was a very difficult dangerous
stunt with the van going into the water
wasn’t it we had a guy named jerome t
bergen a crazy french canadian that
drove that van
at 60 miles an hour up a 30 foot ramp
150 feet out into the air and went down
50 feet into this really muddy water and
uh
lake ontario yeah at in november which
is not a place
you want to be we did that underwater
stuff in the van and i realized when
you’re underwater after all those times
you fantasize what would i do
if my car would you drown that’s what
your car went underwater
now when you guys were writing this film
did you realize that you were
jeopardizing someone’s life by putting
in the van sequence where it crashes
into the
lake we we gave him every out we could
and uh he said no i want to do it and i
want the money
yeah but it cuts from lake ontario where
he goes into the saucer tank in culver
city mgm 73 degrees outside scuba safety
guys all over the place for us
so but you guys were actually underwater
for quite a while yourself yeah about
three hours we were underwater
that scene it was fun yeah it looks like
a lot of fun it wasn’t all fun it was
scary
well i wore a wetsuit it was fun for me
he thought no i don’t need a wetsuit
it’s opening
in both countries on friday yes uh
continued success for you guys thank you
very much for being back here
uh rick moranis and david thomas ladies
and gentlemen
we’ll be right back with graham nash
i would like to see your part of that
condiments a condiment
is something that can stand alone stand
by itself
a condiment is something that has unique
characteristics that are unlike anything
else
and that brings us to horseradish
[Music] the audience seems pretty nice and i
think we’ll have uh plenty of fun oh my
pleasure dave
glad to be here yeah hey who else is on
the show tonight well uh
first of all there’s fran lee bewitz and
then uh you
and uh after that we went with dave fran
leibowitz
then me fran
then me yeah that was the uh
the order we figured out at the meeting
for the for the billing on tonight’s
show i know
my name was now second you see is that
uh a little arbitrary
well uh no i do i want to be fair about
this what would you suggest
oh i don’t know how about uh home run
derby
uh you mean home run derby like
balls and whoever hits one the farthest
gets to be first
um seems to be a kind of fair thing i
don’t know
okay well let’s get fran out here is
fran over there friend
hi um i’m sorry to do this for you but
but john
wants to play home run derby you don’t
mind do you friend do it all the time
great okay
all right so uh we’ll just go on down
there and sure knocks the ball the
farthest
gets top billing for the show seems fair
okay all right go on
that’s right exactly you see all right
just the name thing
seems kind of unorthodox paul could read
now is it okay with you john if if uh
fran goes first that’s fine
that’s fine okay friend he’s calm he is
a little taller he’s a little everything
you wanna you wanna throw these to
yourself or you can call it
three balls you gotta clear the railing
and the farthest one
gets top billing no no stand right over
here
all right play fair huh all right right
on the line
three balls good luck
two more it did not clear the railing
no it was a very nice swing almost
one more very close come on friend
oh well it actually cleared that railing
all right friend very nice job thank you
very much
you did a very nice job
this is john if you want top billing
this is
this is the distance you have to beat
that’s it all right there you are
good luck to you sir
[Applause] it’s one you’re like jack nars on beat
the clock
[Laughter] oh my god
i’m awfully sorry i’m awfully sorry
there’s no need to enter third ball john
you’re the winner
you’ll be a top billing tonight thank
you very much thanks grant i certainly
appreciate it
welcome back to the show we got a nice
program for you john candy will be here
in just a minute and david sanborn is
performing with our band all night and
we’re happy about that and he will also
be playing
uh his new single with paul and the guys
later in the show fran liebowitz is here
and we have sponges for everybody we
talked to in the studio audience what
else
oh uh we also may repair my desk later
in the show there is a
for the last year and eight months on
this program we’ve had a
shelf down here that there i did it
again keep kicking and we have not used
the shelf
at all so if we have time tonight we’re
going to bring out the power tools and
show you at home how how you can take a
shelf out of your desk if you ever need
to so
by all means wake the kids and phone the
neighbors about that
anything else i’m leaving out let’s
let’s just introduce our first guest we
met him earlier in the show
uh it’s always a pleasure to have him
here he’s been with us several times uh
an alumni of sctv he is starring in a
brand new film
which opens on the 28th of this month
entitled going berserk
i believe that’s a bergman film isn’t it
john i think so
please welcome john candy
[Applause] nice to see you good to see you i love
it when you’re on the show you’re uh
you just you make everybody feel good
you’re very funny likeable
no no we’re always uh i’m delighted to
have you here thank you
now well you were the uh the grand
marshal
let me get this right of some canadian
holiday it’s not thanksgiving it’s
oktoberfest all right german beer fest
uh is this a major holiday it’s a major
well it’s on our thanksgiving canadian
thanksgiving yes on the 14th of october
and in the kitchener-waterloo area it’s
the twin cities of ontario
you have somebody here from there
uh there’s 300 000 people line up uh to
watch this parade
and uh i was the grand marshal riding in
the front how were you selected to be
the grand marshal
i was two days before i think the most
of the people turned it down i don’t
know
were busy they called me two days before
and they asked me if i’d come out and i
was very
flattered that they did and what do you
do as the grand marshal and you just sit
in a car
it was great that’s probably what you’ve
been doing that day anyway i would have
done that anyway yeah
uh then you go and drink beer yeah now
uh and schnapps did you wave to the
folks do they know who you are do they
come rushing to the car or
well i was fortunate i had the smurfs
with me
uh they were running alongside so uh i
was riding in a new corvette
oh that’s nice so between the corvette
the smurfs and myself we kind of covered
some bases yeah and some very
good-looking girls we’re holding a sign
that’s nice did you did you drink while
you were in the parade at all
not in the parade you’re not allowed to
drink in the parade uh-huh did you drink
before or after the parade
uh right after
you have to they make you drink and how
long was the parade itself
uh it was a two-hour parade yeah it was
a long parade
and uh you enjoyed yourself i had a ball
it was the first time i’d ever done
anything like that yeah
no it’s a new career for me being a
grand marshaling parade you don’t get
paid much but it’s a good gig
now when you were here the last time you
had just you had uh some trip from los
angeles to toronto right yeah you went
through oklahoma and texas and
had some trouble at the border now
anything uh
i had to bring the car back as you
recall oh that’s right you were taking
this
taking a new car you purchased in l.a
back to toronto an american car
into canada yeah and then i had to take
the car back
to the states yeah now how was that what
was only a 90-mile drive to the border
and they weren’t going to let me in they
would not let you back in the day the
american side would not let me in
because i was canadian driving an
american car uh-huh so once again i
found a cross between george c scott and
patton
and uh the officer that arrested me in
the oklahoma he was just a very hit a
hawkish face to him he just didn’t like
me at all not a good
natured guy no he didn’t uh he didn’t
think it was funny uh-huh and uh did was
a gun play or anything
no they had guns oh sure they have guns
officials i didn’t realize
that on the american side they have guns
customs officials have guns and they
stand there with their hand on it
they’re grilling my daughter ooh three
and a half oh no
and what do you do
[Laughter] so then what happened are you do you
have the car anymore no they allowed me
after an hour they had to strip search
the car
uh to make sure i wasn’t bringing
anything illegal into it
and i’d go through immigration and uh
they grill you there as to
why you’re coming into the states we’re
going down for the emmys
and i kept trying to push that hoping
that they might have known the show or
the emmys
it didn’t work no oh that’s an ugly
experience
it was it was really uncomfortable yeah
well i’m glad you’re much like this
right now
we uh we have to do a commercial john
but we’ll be right back don’t worry
about it we’ll be right back
[Music] now you and paula did you work together
in toronto yes we worked in toronto and
we worked in uh nova scotia
we oh that was the one time we did work
together yes we
traveled to nova scotia to do a live
canadian television show
what was the show the peter zoski show
oh i actually
i did a show twice but he wasn’t he was
not there either time
that’s true he wasn’t there no he was
not there he did uh he did uh uh
canada after dark or right that was the
show and then he also did uh 90 minutes
live mm-hmm
and he was not there either time i never
met peter’s well
he’s a good guy he would have enjoyed me
again we had fun we just wanted to meet
peter he had to go to nova scotia that’s
right
oh i went to toronto he was on the road
a lot yeah uh now you’re speaking of on
the road you’re on the road a lot you’re
uh you want to talk about going berserk
your new film yeah there’s a film coming
out uh october 28th that i did for
universal pictures
uh david steinberg directed uh joe
flaherty gene levy
allie mills pat hingle dick labratini
yeah involved with it sounds like a lot
of fun
yeah it was a lot of fun to do you
wanted to explain the premise here of
the film uh this clip
i i’m about to marry a congressman’s
daughter and this is the first time i
meet their family i’m a chauffeur
yeah and not really uh well-off i’m not
really really well liked either so
really well white
well we’ll see for ourselves
so it’s all right so you played the part
of a limo driver trying to to marry into
into some money is that the best and i’m
invited to a brunch at the uh at the
house okay and as you mentioned we have
some film of that right and i’ve been up
all night
the night before okay any other
pertinent data
i think i told the whole thing all right
uh john candy here on a scene from his
newest motion picture going berserk
it looks like a lot of fun very funny
john and you’re uh i want to mention
that uh
this week you’re hosting uh saturday
night live right is that a lot of fun
for you yeah
yeah it’s exciting how is uh
how is the farm you shouldn’t you be up
there overseeing isn’t it
no no the rain has washed it away david
it’s it’s all carried away down the road
yeah it’s on somebody else’s property
now oh so
you’re in the family no worries got a
motel that’s right with the farm that’s
right
uh how many acres was that 20. 28 28
years of mud
but did you did you plant anything at
all up there no not yet i couldn’t it
was just too wet
it really was we plowed the fields and
uh it was just too muddy
but if it were not somebody would you
have planted a crop of uh grass that’s
what it sought or something i would put
in like
like a 20-acre putting green that’s it
i’d love to do that that’s a nice touch
nice to see you again john good to see
you
good luck with the show good luck with
the film and good luck with the car
whatever happened to that thank you i
burned on the side of the road
john candy folks we’ll be back
[Music] [Applause] um i’m 36 years old and that’s about the
most peculiar thing i’ve ever seen
my first guest tonight is one of the
stars of the new sc tv series which
premieres on cinemax pay television
beginning november 22nd
she’s also one of the most versatile
comedy performers working today take a
look at this videotape of some of the
things
she’s done for us in the past folks
andrea martin here on videotape
you’ll be seeing it in a couple of
seconds ladies and gentlemen please
welcome andrea martin andrea
hi nice to see you again you’re terrific
thank you
nice to see you thank you very much for
being here how is the show coming along
okay it goes on the air in a couple of
weeks november 22nd
yeah in cinemax how do you get cinemax
uh i don’t know yet i’ve had such bad
luck with my cable that
that’s what i’ll trip now how do you
you’re just eating something i know
i know i’m sorry i have a sore throat
and i’m trying to no it’s not a big
thing you want something to drink that’s
a little water or
i had some i’m afraid to give it to you
oh that’s very thoughtful of you
now uh now that you’re on a cable
circumstance here how
how do you go about uh promoting a cable
show as opposed to
like a big time network show although
this is big time well i don’t have to
say that it’s nice of you but
i well i’m doing your show yeah i
appreciate that
and i think right after this i’ll
probably just be going door-to-door in
manhattan with an order form and a
pencil
oh that’s probably the only way you can
um get people to watch
it’s all by subscription yeah i know
sure now uh will you be doing anything
different on this show
it’s a little shorter isn’t it this
program it’s 40 minutes yeah there’s no
commercials at all
um i think people expect when you’re on
pay tv that
you’re either going to take your clothes
off or say something dirty or something
no are you going to do any of that i’ve
done all that yes
live up to people’s expectations no we
haven’t no we haven’t done that at all
that’s the truth of the matter is that
we just sort of stayed with the same
kind of format you know i think the only
difference is that now more people are
going to be able to see it because we
were on 12 30 on nbc
yeah and now we’re going to be on
different times during the day so maybe
people with children and things can see
it yeah yeah and uh
what kind of things are you working on
now for the show i’ve been on a ship for
the last two days did you see dust boat
yeah did you see porkys no you know what
kind of thing i know about porkys but i
didn’t it’s our version of that called
dust boobs
so i’ve been on we’ve been doing that
and um you saw a little bit of uh barbra
streisand so we’re we’re doing a
thing that’s coming up with barbra
streisand and ruth gordon in rich and
jealous
and um and i know you see officer and
gentleman a lot don’t you want to yeah
yeah i’ve seen it now close to 30 times
well
eugene levy who does a character called
sid did this which is the lovely jewish
character
has written uh uh our version of it
called officer and a gentile
so that will be coming up those are just
a few things that are now
this show uh this show from the very
beginning not uh the cable version but
sctv tv has had a you are still doing it
in canada
yeah still writing into what we were
writing in los angeles for a while now i
don’t understand that you’re right the
show
you live in toronto right but you go to
los angeles to write the show
because half of us live in los angeles
it was sort of a compromise to write in
la
and and tape in toronto but then you
come back and you still take it
oh that’s nice so you can be with your
family you have a brand new baby
congratulations thank you very much how
are things going
you got to suddenly have a major family
here yeah i do it’s a serious
proposition it’s actually great now with
two of them it’s a lot easier than just
one because it becomes obsessive
and i’m very relaxed about it so it’s
great we were in la all together we were
in charlie chaplin’s home
which was something seven bedrooms and
wow it was amazing
try the shower well what do you think of
when you think of charlie chaplin
well um think of a legendary film
comedian
i think of him as being short well i
mean also that he was a great comedian
but the shower was actually the shower
hit me here and the pool was very short
and it was the only things that were
sort of left over from
his era yeah well it was interesting
when i was
well no it’s still interesting oh it
isn’t so sad no
but it wasn’t interesting sure it’s
interesting thank you yeah we have many
many other interesting things to talk
about we have to do a commercial hill
here here uh we’ll be back with andrea
martin no it was
fine perfect
[Music] tell me more about your new baby he’s
six months old now his name is joseph
and uh well i don’t know
last night let’s say well he’s going to
be christened next week that’s a sure
that’s exciting
i guess it is i was a little nervous
about it because do you go to church all
the time yeah you do yeah
you can’t hardly get me out of church no
kidding
well um i i consider myself a religious
person i
you know i listen to the bible i believe
in the bible and
i believe in god but i don’t go to
church very often we have to meet the
priest and he’s anglican that’s
episcopalian in canada’s anglican anyway
to make a long story short
we have to meet the priest in order to
get him kristen we’re very very nervous
about it he came over last night with
and he walked in the door
with a red uh crewneck sweater on i said
she’ll like call you father or reverend
he said call me glenn
so i knew automatically we were off to a
good start and i said would you like a
cup of tea or a cup of coffee and
then my husband just jokingly sent her a
glass of scar she said that we’d be fine
bob
we went upstairs he proceeded to drink a
bottle not a bottle of special this is
terrible
a glass of scotch he got very loose and
was talking and we were saying that we
felt very badly we didn’t go to church
and all the time and he said
i wouldn’t be in church all that time if
i wasn’t a minister i i can’t stand
being under gothic arches he went on and
oh it was very interesting got better
and then he said and let me tell you you
know what bette midler said
i can’t tell you what she says because
it’s obviously
well it’s a little color but then we’ll
hint at what bette miller said she said
many many things what would it well it’s
a bad word
uh-huh you know it’s a bad word no
kidding yes
father glenn said that father glenn said
it and we shook hands
to bring the baby up next sunday we love
them and that was about
it that’s terrific
actually it was fantastic because it
makes you what makes religion more
accessible yeah i thought it was
pretty now uh yeah you have your husband
writes on the show sctv
it’s really a family deal now because uh
martin short is that’s right it’s my
father-in-law he’s your brother-in-law
right
and his son his wife is my husband’s
sister
right right but doesn’t he have a
brother also writing on the show yes he
does
yeah mike short and uh joe flaherty has
his brother
uh paul and dave writing on the show
yeah well it’s kind of is that sort of
is that bad no it sounds like a lot of
fun yeah yeah it sounds like a big a
little corrupt
no i think it’s great actually it is
yeah how many how many new shows will
you be doing in a cycle now for the show
let me see six now and then we have six
coming up and the six after that
eighteen shows
beginning november twenty seconds all
right well i know it’s gonna be a big
success for you nice to see you again
andrea
thank you very much for being here folks
[Music] [Applause] [Music] um
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