This is a parody of 'The Hustler' which was featured on a short-lived sketch show (The New Show) from the 1980s. This is taken directly from an old VHS tape.
John Candy was a Funny Uncle Buck but John Candy is not THE GREAT ONE! Jackie Gleason will be the greatest comedian of all times because he was CLEAN COMEDY AND THATS THE TOUGHEST COMEDY OF ALL! But Jackie Gleason did it first take no rehearsal every show and he did live tv better! The Jackie Gleason that we know was funny but Jackie Gleason was the total package he could do music and made many hit albums and he could do a jig like any Irishman but Jackie was smart to the business and all the traps they lay out for super stars because Jackie watched his mom die!!!! Sad to know that Jackie Gleason is now copied by John Candy when he is the greatest today to even come one inch close to Jackie Gleason the Great One!😅
Both Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman would be proud of both John Candy and Kevin Kline for channeling their respective characters from one of my favorite films "The Hustler." RIP to Gleason, Newman, and Candy.
@@AMEER-114- I seem to remember it on NBC. It didn't last long at all. Too bad, because it was very funny. There are some sketches from it floating around on You tube. "Roy's food repair" for one was hilarious.
Watched SCTV when I could which was rare, but some of the funniest, best comedy ever IMHO. John Candy an all-time great, Kevin Cline, so underrated! great actor. Loved the entire cast of SCTV.
SCTV was every bit as good as SNL, and often better. Candy was brilliant as Johnny LaRue, and he and Eugene Levy as the Schmenge Brothers was off the charts!
Candy's Harry Crumb was was a brilliant take off on Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau. He was a comic genius. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is still a must see every holiday season for me.
😱😆 speaking about p,t and a, here it is, Friday, Dec 23, and almost half the country is hit with a blizzard. I saw on TV where thousands of flights were cancelled. "Holy plow" says I to the snow drift, "it's Deja Vu"!
"Understated Swagger." If any two TV and Hollywood Greats had that in bucketloads they were the late greats Mr. Jackie Gleason and Mr. John Candy!🤔😉🌚📺🎥👔👞👞🎱B.W.
"I could be there for months!" LOL My friend and I had the pleasure of briefly meeting John! We were at Clearwater Beach, FL when we saw a group of people out from the north pavilion. There were a group of guys standing together drinking beers with their wives/girlfriends laying around them on their towels. The guys seem to be hanging onto every word of a big guy in the middle wearing dark sunglasses. My friend and I thought the guy looked a lot like Candy so we moved closer. Then we heard that famous booming laugh! We mustered up the courage to approach him hearing his voice just confirmed what we already knew! We shook his hand and told him that were big fans. I’ll never forget he took off his sunglasses and looked into our eyes and sincerely said, “I really appreciate that guys.” He asked us if we were having a good time today. We said sure cold beer, a sunny beach and beautiful women, what’s not to love! He laughed and said, “Yeah, this is a quite the spot.” We said our goodbyes and he told us to have a great day. Not good, GREAT! My friend and I still talk about meeting him especially when we’re at that beach. We didn’t know at the time he was filming “Summer Rental”! The guys were probably some of the crew? Anyway, what a Great guy! Gone WAY to soon! Candy made A LOT of Funny Movies, but one of my favorites that’s often overlooked is Who’s Harry Crumb?
I loved John Candy in trains planes and Automobiles he worked really well and had good chemistry with Steve Martin.. actually everybody he worked with he did an amazing job! Really sad he left us so soon.. R.I.P.
Candy really knew his craft. No doubt he was a fan of Jackie Gleason. He added a bonus feature by doing a little Ralph Kramden from the Honeymooners with the money argument. Even the facial gestures at looking over the balls on the table right out of a Gleason skit. Kevin Kline played off him perfectly. All the actors in this skit kept it tight and to the feel of the original film. Great sketch.
Definitely, when Candy argued that he could not possibly have agreed to a $200 bet because he did not have that much money, it sounded exactly like an exasperated Ralph Kramden
I saw just about every SCTV from that era and I don't think this was among them. I could be wrong but I think this is from a different show. A special maybe?
@@grandwazoo9112 Yeah, the cast included Kline, Candy, Thomas, Catharine O'Hara, Gilda Radner, Buck Henry, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, Candace Bergen and the Quaid brother's. And it flopped so bad I can't remember ever seeing an episode!
@@standardofexcellence "A Game of Pool" - Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 5 - Oct 13, 1961 - with Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters as 'Fats'. There have been lots of stories about a pool hustler named "Fats" based on the "Minnesota Fats" character in the 1959 novel 'The Hustler' by Walter Tevis. "New York Fats" (Rudolf Wanderone) claims the book was based on him, and later went by '"Minnesota Fats" after he played in the film "The Player" in 1971. The book's author denies the book was about Wanderone. Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason played in the original movie of 'The Hustler', released on September 25, 1961, less than a month before the TZ episode aired. It's not clear if the productions knew about each other, or if both just came directly from the book.
one of my all time favorites movies. this was absolutely brilliant! John Candy immersed himself as Minnesota Fats and when he scratched the cueball I busted up laughing!! Kevin Kline was brilliant as well. Well done.
I was fortunate enough to play a game of eight ball with the real Minnesota Fats at the Montgomery Wards store in Kenosha , Wisconsin back in the 1960's when he was touring the country promoting his slate bed pool tables that Wards was selling. They were about $900 dollars, a lot of moolah at the time. I was only about 16 years old at the time and I played pool every noon hour during lunch break in High School.
@@tyjones5019 Fats played at the store Friday and Saturday. On Friday I was just a spectator and saw him play 8 ball with a couple of volunteers from the crowd. On Saturday I got there early so I could be right in front. When he asked for a volunteer player he picked me right away. He let me break and said, “You better sink one on the break kid, or you won’t get another chance!” I sunk a ball on the break and ran about 4 or 5 balls before I missed a bank shot. Fats then proceeded to run the table, mostly only using one hand on the cue. When he sank the 8 ball he deliberately put follow on the cueball so he would scratch and let me win. He did that on every game he played with us mere mortals.
Cool memory, I guess he could generate good will and sell more tables letting the fans win. When I saw you mention Kenosha, I immediately thought of Candy in "Home Alone" heading up a polka band called "The Kenosha Kickers". He was always great to watch.
Brilliant sketch, with two inept pool shooters playing an interminably long match full of missed shots and scratches. Except for the Hustler parody it could've been any 1990s Friday night at any Boston Billiards location in the country. Love it!
I have this on video from when the New Show originally aired and often tell people about this perfect parody. The first 3 minutes is an almost exact recreation of the original film, which sets it up perfectly. Love this.
I think the best John Candy skits were as Johnny LaRue, the fitness guru. Especially when he cooked cat food, he couldn't fake the reaction to the stench.
I used to stay up after saturday night live until 1am when SCTV came on. it was very weird and strange Canadian humor but I loved it. This video, good old VHS! it got blurry when you paused it, unless you had the super sophisticated 4 head one. "please be kind, and rewind"
The thing is, John Candy could likely have played Minnesota Fats seriously and really pulled it off. He proved his ability to tackle a dramatic role in Oliver Stone's JFK and he did that largely after Maureen O'Hara gently pushed him in that direction with some advice during production of Only The Lonely. SHE saw his quality as an actor and a human being right off the bat.
Comedians can often make the best actors because they have such expertise at hiding their own personality and emotions to play characters that it's a natural transition.
John Candy was a wonderful actor. I never met him but somehow his screen presence made me feel he was a genuinely nice guy, the type of person you would want as a friend. It’s a tragic shame he passed away so early in his career. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is one of my favorite movies.
Yes, as a fan of pool, and The Hustler, this was hilarious... thank you so much for preserving this history. I'd like to have this as a file for archiving.
Paul Newman worked for 3 months to develop his game and shut all the shots in the movie except for the one at the beginning where he hits the ball off the cushion, which was shot by Willie mosconi.
While the great pool professional Willie Mosconi did many of the trick shots for the The Hustler, I have it on good authority that he didn't take any of the shots in this remake.
What a brilliant comedic talent and concept carried out to perfection. I was laughing out loud the whole time even with the video quality being terrible. I started watching John Candy back in the late 70's on SCTV. Not sure if this was a skit from the show but it looked like it could have been. I don't remember if Kevin Kline was ever on it.
"Fats comes in here every night about eight-o'clock; not a minute before, not a minute after" ABOUT ? Definitely doing Ralph Kramden's Minnesota Fats, to a Tee
John Candy was one of my favorite comedic actors. But he was also a great dramatic actor too, as witnessed by his role as Dean Andrews in JFK! Terrific!
My neighbor was the Arizona version of fats. Even in his 80s, he could run 10 games in a row and not miss a shot . Your only chance to beat him was if you broke and ran the table yourself
I was thinking you were talking about my dad at first! Ha ha! But you said your dad was in his 80s. In the late 70s through the 80s my dad was a great Hustler. Growing up, he was a firefighter and I thought that firefighters made millions cause we had money. Not millions but we were very well off. It wasn't money from Phoenix, I found out later it was from his hustling. At one point he was the best player in the valley. But their rating is backwards. So he would have been rated a ten or something. I never understood. He still goes to Vegas every year in June I think for the big billiards competition. I wanted to try to hustle too. So my dad set me up with at the time early 2000s the best pool player in AZ to try to teach me. He said I know what I'm doing but my posture isn't good so I would have to work on that. But I was raised around all this.
@katherinemurphree6858 my mom was a pool champ as well.. armature, not pro. She ran bars all my life and played 10 games a day or more with customers. Ended up joining the bud light league and went to Vegas and won the whole thing. I still have all her trophies. I never hustled.. but since I grew up around playing.. I was pretty good. Was definitely the local bar champ for many years. Won several tournaments at the Golden 8 in Phoenix.
@@joshythehand2960 bro I'm not sure how old your mom is. Was she in her prime in the 80's era? Well in her 20'?. My dad is like 66 now or something. See if she played at The Squeeze Box in Phoenix. That was my dad's spot. And unfortunately my moms. But he played at any pool hall. Being a hustler is a dangerous lifestyle. Shit gets for real. I wanted to be a Hustler like him, he said I I did, I would need to get a bodyguard ( if I got good or whatever) cause I will get my ass kicked. I'm like yikes!
Such a tragedy. Big John was proof you can be funny w/o being vulgar. Why some people think cursing and nudity are required to make people laugh, is proof our society has been led down the road to hell. God bless all, and Merry Christmas, and may Christ be with you all in the coming New Year.