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Post Office skit with Gilda Radner & John Candy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypH-lSyPeaw ^
| 1980's
Posted on 04/23/2023 8:49:25 PM PDT by DallasBiff
A short clip from the ABC show Fridays (it was just like Saturday Night Live) with John Candy as a heavy handed postal worker and Gilda Radner as a postal customer
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: abc; fridays; gildaradner; jimknowsdonors; johncandy
I think this was SCTV, not Friday's.
Hilarious none the less, Gilda was almost unrecognizable
To: DallasBiff
I think this was SCTV, not Friday's.
Yup - SCTV. You can see Dave Thomas playing the postal worker in the opening skit. Great, great show, and far funnier than SNL at the time.
To: DallasBiff
To: DallasBiff
I did not think the “good cop, bad cop” trope went back to the eighties. I would be wrong.
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posted on
04/23/2023 9:40:18 PM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
04/23/2023 9:59:24 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
04/23/2023 10:08:30 PM PDT
by
mylife
(I was a sort of country boy, a cockeyed optimist, wrapped in international intrigue and espionage)
To: mylife
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posted on
04/23/2023 10:14:47 PM PDT
by
Laslo Fripp
(Semper Fidelis)
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
04/24/2023 12:40:02 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(I support Trump. Not the GOP)
To: DallasBiff
One day, people will post videos like this to Rumble.
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posted on
04/24/2023 2:47:50 AM PDT
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
To: DallasBiff; AnotherUnixGeek
It wasn’t SCTV either. From the comments section on that video:
“It was NBC primetime and the program was “The New Show”, a Lorne Michaels production during his interim between leaving and returning to SNL. It was episode 3 from January 20, 1984. Dave Thomas was a series regular. Gilda Radner and John Candy were two of this episode’s guests.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Show
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posted on
04/24/2023 3:19:23 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
To: Rinnwald
Good cop bad cop is much older than that. Film Noir has several versions. But I think it existed before even that in 1900 era comics as well.
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posted on
04/24/2023 4:08:23 AM PDT
by
poinq
To: Angelino97
Do not share your stamp ideas with us!
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posted on
04/24/2023 4:53:10 AM PDT
by
Scarpetta
(Trump won...by a lot. )
To: lowbridge
I must have been working a lot during this time...I don’t remember that show at all!
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