SCTV

Michael Barclay on the musician who was ‘more punk rock’ than most punk rockers

… but first the beloved comedian fields our questions

A chat about his new radio show and, of course, Spenny

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 here from 1980 to early 1982. Why would Edmonton build a monument to SCTV?

After four decades, a sequel to a Canadian classic serves as a resonant requiem

Miley gets political, the Pope gets stung and Julian Assange gets an autobiography he doesn’t want

Sorry for the lack of posts. For a filler clip, here’s some semi-Canadian content, as well as something that was quite literally a filler episode of SCTV. Three Toronto Second City members who were not members of SCTV — Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei and Martin Short — took an old episode of “The Cisco Kid” and re-dubbed it with silly voices and dialogue (much of it implying weird sexual tension of various kinds). The tape became a calling card for the three performers, getting Kampmann and Torokvei hired as Hollywood writers, while Short eventually joined the cast of SCTV when they had another round of cast departures.