In his opening comments before hosting a SCTV reunion in Aspen, Conan O’Brien talks movingly about finding SCTV in the wasteland of syndicated television in 1977 as an impressionable, comedy-starved fourteen-year-old and feeling...

You can’t be a film critic and not feel melancholy about the passing of Ebert & Roeper, yet another sad milestone in the imminent death of film criticism. It is truly the end of an era. Ebert’s always been a hero and an...

Hey you guys,

I'd like to start off by apologizing for not posting an SCTV blog post last week. Week after week I am buried under a proverbial shitstorm of work. But last week the shitstorm was even shitstormier than usual. It...

We’re contemplating doing an Inventory on people, places and things that we can never look at the same way after The Simpsons had their way with them. Who can look at Jimmy Carter these days and see anything other than history’s...

A commenter last week remarked that it was a little ridiculous for me to complain about excessive repeats on SCTV since the whole fandango isn’t exactly brand-spanking new to begin with. I suppose my beef—my street beef as it...

The producer of my old television show liked to reference what he claimed was Gene Siskel’s mantra: “Write it once, sell it five times”. Siskel apparently took great pride in being able to recycle reviews in myriad forms: in print, on...

Now would probably be a good time to bring up two banes of SCTV lovers’ existence: canned laughter and reruns. The laugh track generally doesn’t bother me because I’m often drowning it out with laughter of my own. But the...

Howaya?

As an entertainer writer, in all seriousness, it is my distinct pleasure to bring you the second SCTV entry for TV Club Classic. I have a feeling that exploring SCTV together will be an uplifting experience, not...

A few months back I spent a woozy week on my couch recovering from a nasty cold. As is often the case when I’m feeling sickly or low, I sought the comfort of the soothingly familiar. So I started re-watching my SCTV DVDs. In my...