Uncle Buck was a cute movie. Some of his other film stuff was okay but his SCTV stuff was a riot.
The hapless, phony, fawning William B. William (Ed McMahon) character who is contantly humiliated as the sidekick.
Johnny LaRue the abusive restaurant critic. Yorgy the Kazak who drinks from car batteries for booze and other weird characters. So funny. SCTV was great because they did not have the ego of Sat Night Live.
He also seemed like a decent guy.
Catherine O’Hara and Joe Flaherty are other SCTV alumni whose post-tv work was never near as good their work with SCTV. Just thinking about the Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok saying “she blowed up real good” makes me convulse.