Alex Trebel returns to host the night school edition of the game show High Q. Starring Eugene Levy, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Andrea Martin, and John McAndrew.
Andrea Martin is pure gold! She could crack you up without saying a word. That stare is everything! This was the best sketch comedy show ever. The entire cast was brilliant. RIP John.
@@Dora-hi2nw forgot about Martin Short but I'm talking about A-list leading roles in films not bit parts or sitcoms. I'm not trying to insult them. Even then only John and Rick really hit the heights of stardom. Hollywood is tough and plenty of talented people never make it or go beyond character roles.
The key to this skit is to notice how nice and cordial Levy is at the beginning and then watch him as he ends up stark raving mad. A masterful performance.
Seeing Rick Moranis here, makes me think of all the absolute comedy gold that mans made. The story about his departure from acting gave me a whole other level of respect and admiration for him. One of the funniest yet underrated comedians ever.
I was so happy to see Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara win Emmy's for the hilarious Schitt's Creek in Sept. The show won all comedy awards this year. Yeah.
Yeah, I think nobody thought that they would win anything. I think everybody thought that Mrs. Maisel would win everything again. But when Schitt's Creek won one after the other I thought this is fantastic. They set a few records because this year marks the first time a comedic show has... Had a parent/child duo win Emmys at the same time. Broke the record for the most awards won in a single night, 9 in total, breaking the previous record held by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel that won 8 awards. Had their lead actress and actor, Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, win their first Emmys for acting ever. Way back in 1982 Eugene and Catherine won an Emmy for Writing in a Variety/Music show For SCTV The Moral Majority Show. Eugene beat out Michael Douglas and Ted Danson for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Ted is a 2 X Emmy winner for his role in Sam Malone in Cheers.
Remember when this originally aired in the early 80s in southern Ontario. “A small vice-like object” in the Catherine OHara voice, was repeated in high school a million times!
If I ever have the honor of seeing Catherine O'Hara in public, I will get her attention by saying "Margaret Meehan, Parkdale". Her appropriate response would be: "The BEATles."
@@BoBo0807 Ok then, that was the first series, which never aired on NBC and was called Second City TV. The bigger-time incarnation, a later and totally new production, was named SCTV Network. Not sure what you think, but the first one was maybe even funnier.
I just happened across this clip a couple of days after Alex Trebek died. All the obituaries from US broadcasters included clips from SNL but this is proof SCTV was always the better show. This was such an affectionate put-on.
Believe it or not, but this was based on a real show Alex Trebek hosted when he worked for the CBC, called Reach For the Top. A true high school competition program and the names of those schools in the skit are real. St. Michaels is part of the Catholic Board and Central Technical was part of the TBof E now TDSB.
@@user-lq4wk5ub1k We are both correct. Trebek did an Ontario version and Guest the National finals. If you Wiki Reach there were a fair number of hosts. Hey I learnt something!
A lot of us in the States, even huge SCTV fans, never knew that Hi Q was a parody of an actual show. I only found out recently that Martin Short's Brock Linehan was a take off of an actual CBC interviewer. Brilliant show.
@LordKellthe1st Wow, you are in for a treat! Watched it all of the time back in the 70's and 80's. The entire cast went on to successful TV and movie careers. My kids are Shitt's Creek fans. They couldn't believe that Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara had been on a show together so long ago. I think Andrea Martin is the funniest lady of all time!
@@davidrichter9164- "SNL got too political" - Seriously! - RIGHT ON! - "How many skits can you do about beheading Donald Trump... IN ONE EPISODE! GO FOR IT!" morons. Still, Eddie Murphy came out of SNL long after I stopped staying up that late, and for "Live from New York! It's SATURDAY NIGHT!" ? THE counterpoint to Howard Cosell's "Saturday Night Live" show earlier in the evening on that 2nd place entry in network TV, the National Biscuit Company as it was in the funniest skit ever seen on television anywhere, "STAR TREK - Final Log!" It was a Golden Age manufactured out of tinsel and desperation, but BY GOD IT KICKED ASS! AND REMEMBER KIDS, VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN! "Porgie Tirebiter - He's a student like you!" SGM SATANA for More Science High, - Over and OUT!
I agree that this cast is phenomenal, but so were the original SNL cast (the Not Ready for Prime Time Players), and the original cast of In Living Color. Three fantastic comedy troupes that created several big stars!
Actually Eugene Levy is one of the great straight guys in comedy. Watch Schitt's Creek or American Pie. He could have great fun with the geek contestants.
When Alex Trebek did "Reach for the Top" on CBC, way WAY back in the 60s, we used to laugh at him. (The show, like this, was kind of goofy) We didn't laugh at him for long though and now we're totally proud of him. Way to conquer the U.S. Alex!!!
🇺🇸 here. I saw that show and remember Trebek hosting it. We could only get TV over the air from Canada in my border town. My favorite Canadian show was The Beachcombers, not to mention Hockey Night In Canada.
Most of these comics went on to make our childhood. And the mom from Home alone was so good at being a concerned mother I wouldn’t have thought she was a comedian lol
I might be wrong, and if I am I will eat a bug...but these High Q and Half Wit sketches are among the greatest comedy sketches ever...#SmallViceLikeObjectsRule
Americans might assume Levy's character was based on Alex Trebek as Jeopardy! quizmaster. It wasn't, because Trebek didn't appear on Jeopardy! until 1984, a year after SCTV was cancelled. In fact it hearkened back to 1966, when he was quizmaster of Reach For The Top, a Canadian show featuring high school teams (as in High Q). The SCTV cast knew the show.
6:03 I remember this from so long ago & it was so genius back then & still holds up today. The part I loved is how he heard the buzzer & KNEW it was Margaret without even looking. Then DEMANDING that buzzers start being disconnected!! 😂😂😂 I am going to start using "a small, vice-like object" now as answers to questions posed to me. 😂😂😂
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, and I might be but I don't think I am, but the best was Andrea Martin! She cracked me up and didn't even say a word!! But of course, the script was amazing and their performances are flawless
I loved when they did the Russian take over of the SCTV Satellite. 3CP1, that was hilarious, and then Johnny Nucleye had to go up and take back the SCTV Satellite from the Russians. Skit on there about Yorgi and his talking tractor, the Russian game show parody of Jeopardy. A 26 letter slang word for cabbages, LMAO
Andrea doesn’t speak a word and is still absolutely hilarious. Catherine’s Margaret is always golden. OOGIE SHARP! (The name just cracks me up) I miss Martin Short’s Lawrence Orbach.
