SCTV - Sleaze Comedy TV?

Charlie R

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Dec 6, 2001, 6:27:32 PM12/6/01

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It just occured to me that many of our favorite SCTV characters are
downright disagreeable: they're either slightly damp from recent
sleaze baths or trying to sell you on something you sure don't need or
just plain annoying.

For example:
John Candy: almost all his characters, but most notably Johnny LaRue,
Dr. Wainwright, Dr. Tongue.
Joe Flaherty: Guy Cabllero, Count Floyd, Sammy Maudlin, Rocco, Slade
Cantrell, Alki Stereopolis, the ship captain.
Eugene Levy: Bobby Bittman, Earl Camembert, Dr. Rawl Withers, Woody
Tobias, Jr., Al Peck, Crazy Hy, Dougal Currie
Andrea Martin: Edith Prickley, Edna Boil, Dr. Cheryl Kinsey, Libby
Wolfson, Dutch Leonard,
Rick Moranis: Skip Bittman, Gerry Todd, Clay Collins.
Catherine O'Hara: Lola Heatherton,
Harold Ramos: Moe Green
Martin Short: Jackie Rogers Jr & Sr, Brock Linehan, Irving Cohen, Troy
Soren, Cheaplaughs Johnson
Dave Thomas: Lin Ye Tang, Bill Needle, Angus Crock, Tex Boil, Harvey
K-Tel,

I love 'em all, but rising to the top of this fetid heap, are the
sleazy Eugene Levy characters. Who can top his trapped, darting eyes
and semaphoring eyebrows (the left often rising inches above the
right).

JS577

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Dec 6, 2001, 9:07:30 PM12/6/01

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You make a good point. Most of SCTV's characters are sleazy. Wonder if they
have anything to do with the actors themselves? I always wonder if Bill Needle
actually speaks Dave Thomas's true feelings.

Diluted Evil

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Dec 6, 2001, 10:14:13 PM12/6/01

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>You make a good point. Most of SCTV's characters are sleazy. Wonder if they
>have anything to do with the actors themselves?

Yeees...all of them sweated sleaze daily. Then the sleaze-sweat was HARVESTED!
By...SLEAZE-Farmers! And they'd make top dollar for SCTV cast sleaze...but it
all came to an end one sunday morning when the sleaze trade was abandoned for
the more profitable Annoying Little Bitch trade--which forced the farmers to go
move into Pauly Shore's house.

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Vince Macek

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Dec 6, 2001, 10:47:45 PM12/6/01

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Charlie R wrote:

> It just occured to me that many of our favorite SCTV characters are
> downright disagreeable: they're either slightly damp from recent
> sleaze baths or trying to sell you on something you sure don't need or
> just plain annoying.

...

Well, I read one of the cast way back when summarizing SCTV as 'a network
of weasels', so yeah. Curiously, one of the more forthright earnest folks
there was porn merchant Harry, the guy with the snake on his face.

VMacek

G222harpo

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Dec 8, 2001, 12:26:59 PM12/8/01

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> Curiously, one of the more forthright earnest folks
>there was porn merchant Harry, the guy with the snake on his face.

I always thought it was Harry, the guy with the snake in his pants. Wait, I'm
thinking of my Uncle Murray. Sorry.

Treeclimbr

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Dec 8, 2001, 2:13:30 PM12/8/01

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Stefan Seely is NOT sleaze!

How dare you!

Neither is Brian Johns.

Shame on you.
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Tom Stazer

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Dec 8, 2001, 5:42:17 PM12/8/01

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Shouldn't that be:

Stefan Sealy is Not.. (g-g-gulp-glup) .. sleaze!

Treeclimbr

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Dec 9, 2001, 7:46:50 PM12/9/01

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STEFAN ROCKS!

see here for yourself:

http://pearsoft.freeyellow.com/stefan.jpg

Tom Stazer

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Dec 9, 2001, 8:13:28 PM12/9/01

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"Gone gone gone she been gone so.....ggg...gggone"

tim sturges

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Dec 10, 2001, 9:52:50 PM12/10/01

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Maybe they were conveying sleaze,but,stopped at the very edge(?) !.
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