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SCTV Cast Members Reunite for Charity Benefit in Toronto

May 2nd, 2008 by Scott Marks

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It’s been twenty-five years since SCTV left the airwaves and for many of us it remains the sharpest and funniest comedy show in the history of television.

Based on a fictional TV station located in the equally fictional Melonville, each week the show’s creators brought us a day’s worth of programming compacted into half-hour installments, later expanded to the SCTV Network 90 format. In Chicago, SCTV aired immediately following Saturday Night Live and not a week passed where comparisons weren’t invited. SCTV consistently won hands down.

Emulsion Compulsion loyalist Bushido John sent a note informing me of an SCTV reunion next week in Toronto that will bring together Joe Flaherty, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short and big shot Harold Ramis. After doing some of his finest work on the show, Ramis quit SCTV for a career in Hollywood. When last scene he was adding exceptional support to Knocked Up.

In an interview with the Canadian Press’ Lee-Anne Goodman spoke with Joe “Count Floyd” Flaherty about the series’ amazing following. “It’s tremendously uplifting and one of the greatest rewards, to hear your peers, and these really great comic minds, saying they look up to us,” the U.S.-born Joe Flaherty, 66, said Wednesday from his home in Toronto, where he’s lived since the early 1970s.

According to Flaherty, the gang will only have one rehearsal. “We’re doing some SCTV characters, we’re doing some stage stuff that we all did on stage at Second City, and we’re doing some improvisation. It should be interesting, that’s for sure, but the best thing is that it’s put us all in touch again.”

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