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From | erhoek@comcast.net |
Subject | Re: Second City |
Date | Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:15:57 +0000 |
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and glasses from Elton John's wardrobe.
> Ohmygawd...the Queen Haters! I remember when they appeared on Mel's Rockpile as
> part of Mel's doomed attempt to appear hip and bring Punk Rock to masses. I
> remember John Candy played the drummer; he was bald and was wearing clothes
> lifted from Captain Sensible's wardrobe. But the funniest part of his character
> was that he appeared stone face through the entire performance. Not a facial
> muscle moved! This skit was seared into my memory and I remember that the
> lyrics scrolled across the bottom of the screen (as you couldn't really
> understand Martin Short's take on a punky British accent). I don't remember all
> of the lyrics, but some to them were:
>
> I'd like to drown the Queen off the coast of Argentine.
> Throw her off a battleship of her Falkland war machine
> She taxes me to death
> I can't afford me dope
> I'd like to get her high....yeah, that would make me laugh....
>
>
> Hilarious stuff!
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>
> > I have been reminsicing back and forth with Scott Shaw about highlights from
> the
> > SCTV series.
> > Here are the ones I remember:
> > Teachers Pet (great parody/tribute to To Sir With Love featuring Eugene Levy's
> > Ricardo Montalban in place of Sidney Poitier and the Boomtown Rats (in place
> of
> > Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders) doing Elephant's Graveyard. (on Season 2
> > dvd)
> > Aforementioned Tubes on Fishin'Musician.
> > Plastics video (on the Gerry Todd video show along with Talking Heads-Once in
> a
> > Lifetime on season 2 dvd)
> > Queen Haters (Hilarious Sex Pistols take off) on Mel's Rockpile . Martin Short
> > doing his best Johnny Rotten spewing forth vituperative lyrics like "I feel
> > sorry for Princess Di for having to have such a terrible mother-in-law". (I
> see
> > that episode 85 on season 1 has a Mel's Rockpile 20th anniversary special so I
> > think that just might be it)
> > Aformentioned Plasmatics. (episode 89 season 2 dvd set)
> > There is so much great entertainment there not even counting all the non music
> > related sketches. Season 3 is due out soon as well.
> > -r
> >
> >
> > > Revisiting the SCTV stuff is a real treat. The Plasmatics also
> > > performed a tune and played along with the bit as well.
> > >
> > > Perry
> > >
> > > > > From: "Mark Eichelberger"
> > > To:
> > > Subject: Re: Tubes Question
> > > Message-ID: <008901c51aab$60f49a60$0300a8c0@mcehome>
> > >
> > > Was this a recurring sketch that featured John Candy as a fisherman who
> > > hung
> > > out at a fishing lodge with a group of musicans? And in between
> > > fishing,
> > > the musicians would perform a song or two?
> > >
> > > I recall an episode where Robert Gordon was hanging out at the lodge.
> > > It
> > > was cool to see/hear him perform Marshall Crenshaw's "Someday, Someway".
> > >
> > > As an aside, I think around the same (early 80's) NBC's Tom Snyder began
> > > hosting music acts on his late night show. I remember seeing The
> > > Ramones,
> > > The Jam, Adam and the Ants, U2 and the infamous Plasmatics perform on
> > > his
> > > show. I think that for most of these groups, his show offered them
> > > their
> > > first US appearance on TV. At the time, I thought he enjoyed having
> > > these
> > > acts on, but in later interviews, old Tom stated that the network brass
> > > pushed the acts on him in a failed attempt to boost ratings with the
> > > college crowd.>
> > >
> > > np: De Novo Dahl
> > >
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