SCTV | Canadian television series | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Levy

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  In Eugene Levy: SCTV and mockumentaries
  …the Canadian sketch comedy show SCTV. Levy later noted that he learned important lessons from working on the program. In 2020 he told Variety that he did not know how to write for television when he first joined SCTV:
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O’Hara

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  In Catherine O’Hara
  …the sketch comedy TV show SCTV in 1976, O’Hara was part of the cast. She was known for her skillful celebrity impersonations as well as the characters she created. When SCTV was picked up in 1981 for a late-night slot to air in the United States, O’Hara, after briefly working…
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“Saturday Night Live”

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  In Saturday Night Live
  …tradition also gave rise to Second City TV, which appeared first on Canadian television [1976–80] and then on NBC [1981–83], to the American Broadcasting Company’s Fridays [1980–82], and to the Fox network’s In Living Color [1990–94] and MADtv [1995–2009], among other programs.) Similarly, the brilliantly warped satire of _National Lampoon_…
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