Sublime

SCTV was a sketch show from Canada. It was not done in front of a live audience; everything was shot on tape. (The Ben Stiller Show was heavily influenced by SCTV. Ben and I used to say, “We’re like SCTV if they’d had money to work with.”) The cast was epic—John Candy, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara—but the person who made me laugh th

friend’s uncle had just been elected

Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.

Judd: Then Lorne Michaels wanted you as permanent host for SNL, which was just starting. Albert: Instead of hosting, which I didn’t want to do, I was able to sort of dictate what I wanted to do, because they wanted my name. And so I made six films [for SNL] in five months. That was really a film school.

(Although even in her twenties, Charlie wasn’t what you’d call eye candy: her looks had always been sharp edged and intense, more like eye tequila.)