I came across this Youtube recast of SCTV’s Tex and Edna Boil’s Organ Emporium skit on my friend Dave’s Facebook page. I grew up on all the old SCTV stuff as it was local for a while (shot in the Edmonton area) and was lucky to catch all these great stars before they were stars. The stuff they did back then was hilarious and shaped much, I believe, of the ‘what’s funny’ standard for us Canadian folk.
The cast had such greats as Eugene Levy, John Candy, Martin Short, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas to name a few, and they’ve all experienced vast amounts of Hollywood credit (both comedy and drama) ever since these early days in Canada. If you’ve never seen SCTV stuff before, you can probably catch a lot of it on your cable comedy channels - or Youtube of course. Some skits missed …but most hit - and the hits more than made up for the misses!
