The "Clark Kent of Comedy” also founded ‘American Bystander’ magazine and showed up in ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Strange Brew,’ ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ and ‘Small Time Crooks.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor ...

The legendary sketch show introduced audiences to Catherine O'Hara, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, John Candy, more ...

SCTV is kind of the show you didn’t know you knew: hugely influential without being popular. As far as cult sketch shows go, SCTV is one of the best. Begun in 1976 by the Toronto chapter of Second ...

There’s a movement—it’s a clever piece of magazine marketing, actually, but we’ll call it a movement—to build some sort of local monument in Edmonton to the SCTV television series, which was produced ...

Television's old reliable, Saturday Night Live has occupied the same time slot on the same network for longer than much of its fan base has been alive. Over the course of its rocky but brilliant run, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TORONTO — Loud and abundant hometown love set the tone in Toronto’s historic Elgin Theatre on Sunday, as seven stars of the ...

Catherine O’Hara, the rubber-faced red-headed comedian who stars as the determined mom in John Hughes’ “Home Alone,” began her career in Canada on “Second City TV” which had its renaissance on ...

There was a time, when he was younger and just a little bitter, that Joe Flaherty coveted the kind of success and recognition accorded the Not Ready For Prime Time Players of “Saturday Night Live.” In ...

Though the name “Second City Television” implies a comic sensibility rooted in Chicago, “SCTV” was always wilder, more exotic and tougher to pin down. Though it bore some resemblance to the sketch ...

There was always something different about "SCTV." Maybe it was the setting a low-budget television network broadcasting from the fictional town of Melonville, located somewhere in the "tri-city area.

This show was spun off from "SCTV Network 90" which was cancelled after two seasons on NBC. The same cast from 1982-83, with the exception of John Candy, appears on this 45-minute sketch comedy series ...

Screw SNL; the real outlaw genius pioneers of late-night TV satire were on SCTV, the imaginary network conjured up in the ’70s and ’80s by John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, ...