Television's old reliable, Saturday Night Live has occupied the same time slot on the same network for longer than much of its fan base has been alive. Over the course of its rocky but brilliant run, ...

“Every day, on every page, he has been our North Star,” Gerber said in a statement. “From his days at National Lampoon, Brian was ‘every comedy writer’s favorite comedy writer,’ crafting an ...

SCTV is kind of the show you didn’t know you knew: hugely influential without being popular. As far as cult sketch shows go, SCTV is one of the best. Begun in 1976 by the Toronto chapter of Second ...

In the late 1970s, a group of improv comedy actors from Chicago and Toronto teamed up to star in one of the greatest sketch comedy series ever seen on North American television. “Saturday Night Live”?

After a successful Canadian run as Second City TV on Global and SCTV on CBC, the cast packed up and moved to America (theoretically) when NBC offered them a timeslot under the title SCTV Network 90.

This show was spun off from "SCTV Network 90" which was cancelled after two seasons on NBC. The same cast from 1982-83, with the exception of John Candy, appears on this 45-minute sketch comedy series ...

Comedian Dave Thomas, whose eponymous weekly half-hour show is one of the brighter lights on CBS` summer schedule (9:30 p.m. Mondays, WBBM-Ch. 2), says he realized it was time to quit the popular ...

TORONTO — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the beloved Canadian sketch series "SCTV," has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief ...

Catherine O’Hara, the rubber-faced red-headed comedian who stars as the determined mom in John Hughes’ “Home Alone,” began her career in Canada on “Second City TV” which had its renaissance on ...

Screw SNL; the real outlaw genius pioneers of late-night TV satire were on SCTV, the imaginary network conjured up in the ’70s and ’80s by John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, ...