SCTV - Women Say the Darndest Things
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- From Episode #46 of SCTV
(Season 2, Episode 20)
Original airdate: 27 January 1979
Host Art Linkletter (Dave Thomas) interviews cute housewives with their afternoons free and gives away bobby pins and panty hose. Features Andrea Martin as "Modeine Grunge" and Catherine O'Hara as "Anne Sterling".
A spoof of a segment called "Kids Say the Darndest Things", from the real Art Linkletter's radio and TV show "House Party" (1945-69).
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Man I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous.
More like multitasker.
Lol.
I'd rather b amphibious... wait... is that the same thing?
🤣🤣🤣
Ba-da-da-Bing!
Catherine O'Hara. What a riot. "I can do both at the same time."
Oh man this is so sad and still pertinent. My husband taught me that.
This is hilarious and brutal at the same time.
A sign of the times...and yes, quite brutal, from the perspective of 2022.
@@joeidaho5938 Errr, this was brutal when it was done, and it was _meant_ to be. It's called "satire."
@@jackal59 These things could be said so much easier back then, as compared to now. Don't kid yourself.
@@joeidaho5938 Yes but only by morons on one of three US TV broadcasters. Too many people under fifty literally think this this is the way men talked to and about women in actual day to day life. We did not and women would not put up with such patronizing foolishness. Which is why it is being soundly mocked by these comedic actors.
@@Alsatiagent Agree. For one thing, comedy just had much more range back then. It's too bad that comedy is being censored ....or pressured to censor....these days....due to political sensitivities. Comedy should always have pretty free reign....unless there is clear desire to mock those who are fairly powerless. There is so much humour to be had in topics that are on the edge politically. Satire like All In The Family....was just amazing...and it got it's point across, regardless of those who are dumb enough to think it was meant to support racist or bigoted Americans.
I miss SCTV. Comedy gold!
Tears of laughter.
“Isn’t she smart as a little whip?! Now, did your husband help you memorize that, or did you learn that all by yourself?” LOL
No need to repeat we watched the video, thanks
@@richj011 People do that regularly on UA-cam ... highlight the passage that struck them the most.
@@canoeman1961 you can just use the time code, and have people watch it themselves. Women probably wouldn't think of that though...
@@RonJohn63 Eh, for that? You lose your place in the comments section, poster also needs to add context or an end timestamp as well. Way easier to just read a tiny sentence if that's all it is. Why is this even a discussion lmao
@@richj011 do some meditation mate, there's a lot of frustration in you.
Saw this on TV years ago and loved it. Still do! Especially Dave's reaction after Catherine replies to his question about being ambidextrous.
Catherine O'Hara is the best.
I am glad people still get a shot at her ability through "Schitt's Creek," and I could be age-biased, but this material blows her work there out of the water.
More gold from the 70s and 80s. Glad I grew up with these shows.
It occurred to me watching this that if u were born after 1970 u probably have no idea who Art Linkletter was😅
Art was a farmer in Esperance, Western Australia.
I was born in 68 and I only know him from the sweepstakes ads that used to come in Sunday papers.
Yet, Bill Cosby revived the show in the 90s. We know what direction that went.
Nah, us ‘70s babies were exposed to Art Linkletter via commercials such as the Contour Chair commercials as well as reruns and snippets of “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” I was born in 1976 and I definitely remember Art.
Those are comic geniuses. SCTV - as a whole - help shape satire comedy.
The Second City troupe, as a whole, has made invaluable contributions to comedy,,,and improvisational theater and ensemble acting, in general! Second City alumnus include Joan Rivers, Robert Klein, Alan Arkin, Fred Willard, Burns and Schreiber, Peter Boyle, NUMEROUS Saturday Night Live alumnus,including most of the original cast, Bonnie Hunt, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Keegan-Michael Key, etc, etc, etc
Hey Mit , what do you think of women- as a hole - ?
@@jcaseymiller He would say nice and tender.
Catherine O'Hara is an underappreciated comedic talent.
She’s great but not sure winning an Emmy is under appreciated
@@discosucks99 Only one Emmy?
On what do you base your estimate that she's "underappreciated?" As far as I know, she's been held in high esteem for decades.
Not by me bud.
WAIT… is that Mrs McAllister in the blue sport coat lmaooo Omggg
Amidst all the idiocy of those who do not understand comedy or satire, there is precious little about Dave's wonderful Art Linkletter impersonation. Linkletter had a long running show called People Are Funny. Humour challenged folks, please, move along.
+genki2genki Yes, and also "Kids Say the Darndest Things."
genki2genki The classic show was House Party
Yes, Thomas is fantastic in this skit!
Do you want a medal sweetie? How arrogant is your comment? Virtue signaling idiot.
Yes you and I are younger than the other fogies commenting on his TV career!
"House Party" continued the latest and it had a kids' segment for them to say "the darndest things." And it featured guests from other CBS shows, for instance Lucille Ball, and "Buffy and Jody" from Family Affair.
I laugh more during one 2 minute clip from SCTV than I do from one of season of SNL....
Me too! current SNL shows, prior to the 1995 shakeup it was AWESOME!
K Kroeger,....then obviously missed this year's joke swap, between Colin, and Che. Here,...I just watched the one from 2018. Hilarious: ua-cam.com/video/YRfN-UGoKJY/v-deo.html
@@happytimeharry363 That's just evil and sick.
I've been trying to give SCTV a shot lately. I was born in '83, so I wasn't watching any of this when it was current. Some of the short sketches are funny, but then you get sketches like 'The Towering Inferno,' or that one making a network war into an installment of the Godfather - both of which go on for 15-20 minutes without anything worth a laugh. And it's not that I only 'get' stuff like the new SNL (which I don't watch). Marx, Hope, Skelton, Rickles, Benny, Burns & Allen, the Dean Martin Roasts - all good stuff, but a lot of the early SNL, and most of SCTV falls flat for me.
@@funstuff2006 Some of the humour was based on current events at the time, so won't be funny now if you weren't around then. Also, some of it was more aimed at a Canadian audience (of which I am one), at least in the earlier shows.
I was around when SCTV was new, and mostly liked it, but some sketches were not great. But overall, was a good show that I watched every time it was on.
But in all fairness she did later forget Kevin!!! 😂
Twice!
@If you don't vote for Biden, YOU AIN'T BIDEN But she was his mom.
That was just a movie, it didn't actually happen.
@@kuhnhan Wait... you mean Home Alone wasn't documentary footage of a real time event where a family forgot their kid at home? Wtf... *mind blown*
@@mchevre it was in "fake time", possibly the same zone within which you might reside.
omg this is hilarious! I was barely in my teens when I watched SCTV and didn't get a lot of the humour like I do now.
this is so funny. Those women were so precious
Yes, Thomas reaction at 1:50 was PRICELESS-lol!
Hilarious!
He's mimicking Art Linkletter, who had a show in the 1960s named "Kids say the darndest things".
@@RonJohn63 Thank you for that, though I am very familiar with the classic show.
You must be ambidextrous, do you know what that means? Yes I do. Shocked look. Oh man, thats funny.
I wish the first 3 seasons would eventually be released in their entirety on DVD. And the final 6th season as well!! PLEASE!!!
Hilarious!!! The troubling part of that bit was that Art Linkletter and his ilk were actually as condescending, if not more, during that period. Hard to believe.
You're right, but the pendulum has swung too far the other way. Now, it's in vogue for movies and TV shows to portray white males as evil villains, while most reasonably thinking people know there's good and bad everywhere
To children. This satirizes *"Kids* say the darndest things".
"And she's as cute as a bug's ear!"🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
This is a hoot. SCTV had more humor in one episode than a whole season of SNL.
Only between most of the years between 1980-1985.🤣🤦♂
that's a pretty low bar to set. SNL hasn't been the least bit funny or entertaining since Belushi died.
Best Art Linkletter impression ever!
One of the best anti-sexism clips, ever....don't need a half hour sermon on inequality....just this.
F U!
Perfect. "Maybe you're husband will buy you an aquarium." Cuter than a bugs ear. Omg this is exactly how it was and oftentimes still is. It's a perfect example of male's superiority complex. Arrogance breeds stupidity 😂
@@blackjakko Perchance the other way around?
@@blackjakko What about, get back to the kitchen. Or. Go fry me a piece of meat bit... Wow, the times have changed ha ha
Exactly. This is so much more effective and doesn’t come with never ending condemnation.
My day made! O'Hara saying "Muncie, Indiana! My hometown!
Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy are still killing it on Schitt's Creek.
That show ended too.
Fantastic satire from the Great White North! Eh?
That's a pretty good Art Linkletter.
Dave Thomas does a bunch of great imitation work, Lee Liberace, Bob Hope, Walter Cronkite, a few off the top of my massive dome in his SCTV regard.
I absolutely miss this show this is one of the best shows they ever put on TV way funner than the stuff they got on today
I suspect people today don’t know that this was a satire of an older, actual program called “Kids Say The Darndest Things”. On that, children were interviewed by the real Art Linkletter who tried his best to get the contestants to say the embarrassing stuff their parents told them NOT to say on the air. There was a heavy overlay of Christianity as well, as Art often asked about Bible stories which the kids would comically misunderstand or mess up. Viewers of this satire in 1979 would have remembered the original from the late 1950s into the ‘60s.
OMG. An overlay of Christianity. Yikes.
This is pure gold, I can't stop laughing.
Lol! Scathingly sarcastic. Two 👍👍
More relevant than ever.
SCTV videos are one of the very few vids that I watch before reading the comments.
Funny is timeless. Some shows lose their comic bite as time passes. Not SCTV.
A brilliant sketch is one that can be sexist and satirize sexism at the same time.
But of course
Absolutely. Such great comedy writers those guys.
Satire of sexism makes the sketch itself not sexist... it's putting the spotlight on it. Doesn't make it any less funny, but you can be laughing at it for two different reasons.
that makes no sense. It is not sexist, it is making fun of it. In fact, it is not even that. It is just a spoof of Art Linkletter's show Kids Say the Darndest Things. That is the nature of this kind of comedy. You take something in the real world, change it to make it absurd and you laugh at the absurdity.
@@marks6663 It's all about interpretation. They're a lot of people who love Archie Bunker because they like his character. What are you going to do, tell people it's satire. Let people think how they want. The professions listed in the video were absurd and not realistic to say the least.
Catherine O'hara = funny, smart and pretty
I'm showing this at the Al Bundy Retrospective Film Festival.
This is such a great satire of Art Linkletter's "Kids Say the Darnedest Things." I used to watch it when I was a kid myself. Dave Thomas has his persona down pat!
I never thought condescending could be so hilarious 😂😂😂
This is awesome! Thanks for posting! :)
SCTV nailing it. By the way, obligatory mention of how much in love with Andrea and Katherine I was in back in the 70's. Smart, funny and gorgeous has always been my weakness.
This is brilliant. A time bomb. The premise and laughs start cheap, but the laugh is on future us, as we are mocked to a level that strikes even stronger 39 years later.
Well said, GCKelloch.
@B H Absolutely! And thank you for pointing that out. I could not bear the irony of explaining the skit to those who are offended. If one doesn't get it, watch it again in it's entirety and pay attention to how the characters present themselves.
Wow Catherine looks like she was about 19 years old in this sketch.
SCTV were ahead of their time with this skit. If you look at those 1970s game shows now, they really were quite sexist (and even racist at times). These saw it for what it was and make some pretty funny parody around it. I'm sure Catherine and/or Andrea had a lot to do with the writing
Ooo. Racist and Sexist ooooooOO. Someone call the phone police.
I say "Hello" and some schmuck says I am racist...boo hoo
@@wallaceb9120 Bull Shit Fucking strawman!!
@@wallaceb9120 How the fuck did you manage to get your fragile ass triggered by that. Tell your fucking therapist, we're not paid to hear your bullshit.
Ugh, there's always one of those guys responding. But after watching the interviews I can guarantee you that its a Catherine sketch. But Dave really worked it.
This really doesn't' look like a joke, it looks like a normal 70s TV show.
SCTV - I always tried to fall asleep to the reruns, but it kept me up laughing convulsively.
Great clip, thank you. Sorry things don't change very fast.
SCTV was way better than SNL
LOL! Bobbie pins or panty hose with plastic bows.
Ah, the good ol' days!
Wow those two women were very smart. I guess anything is possible nowadays!!
I could have watched more! 😂
"Reduce pollution with cleaner-burning fuels." And here we are 5 decades later wishing for the same thing.
I love the contrast between the stereotypical housewife, and the realistic one. Totally brilliant!
Thanks so much for this!
“ Condescension..can you pronounce that?!”
I'm a-gonna guess that you're in on the joke, right? Brilliant sketch, right?
SCTV was way ahead of its time. They had some really outrageous satirical bits. CBC radio’s version of satire was the Royal Canadian Air Farce, which was milquetoast humour at its worst. This was followed by The Hour Has 22 Minutes which was funny at first, but then was swallowed up by the mediocrity of Toronto, and only the least talented and unfunniest members survived and went on to make bland, PC humour that was sure to offend no one. I wish someone would digitally remaster all of SCTV’s shows. They were on the cutting edge.
Are you nuts? Both _This Hour Has 20 Minutes_ and Royal Canadian Air Farce_ have the best humor ever from Canada ever. Also, This Hour.. was/is made in Newfoundland, IIRC.
Are SCTV fans always so disdainful of humor shows that comment on politics? And do you people live in a Never Never Land, or what?
@@Neville60001 This Hour Has 22 minutes features Newfoundlanders but is made in Nova Scotia.
@@johnbrowne3950 THis Hour moved to Toronto a few years ago. But comedy is relatively subjective, the fact is that both Royal Air Farce and This hour were shows that went on DECADES. This was six years, and its not like SCTV didn't have its dodgy bits. Especially the soap opera 'satires' that were essentially, well, soap operas. I thought Greg Thomey was the funniest one on SCTV, and I stopped watching pretty early on. Once both shows started getting politicians as guests then it was pretty obvious the satire wasn't exactly going to be cut throat. But SCTV had lots of just silliness, it wasn't always edgy. But no need to try to elevate one show by shitting on others. THose others certainly had audiences who enjoyed them, even this isn't exactly hard hitting by todays standards.
@@mikearchibald744 Thomey wasn't on SCTV. Both Air Farce and now This Hour flamed out years ago.
@@johnbrowne3950 I meant that, it was a brain fart. But air farce hasn't even been ON for almost a decade. Political satire is pretty much dead nowadays, the fact that there are a dozen shows still trying to do it says it all. To be fair, those canadian political satire shows were doing it LONG before it was even a thing in the US.
Brilliant concept
We still have "Women say the darndest things" only now they call it TikTok
And then we have a comment section on UA-cam for 'Men say the stupidest sexist things unfiltered' specifically for Super Kyle.
"You must be ambidextrous! Do you know what that means?"
"Yes, and I don't think it means... what you think it means."
Funny. SCTV had some great skits.
This is a wonderful parody of the misogyny prevalent within western society during that time period.
@Mister Bister Thank you for your comments. While true from your perspective, I remember a very different attitude towards working women in the 70’s and 80’s. This was especially true for women entering into traditionally male dominated fields, such as public safety, engineering, and defense. I remember very vividly how my mother was treated at while working as a paramedic in the 70’s and police officer in the 80’s and 90’s. By the 90’s things were beginning to change but there were nowhere near the opportunities for women there are today. It is almost possible the pendulum has swung too far and women are now suffering a new form of discrimination as you eluded to.
What's scary to me is it's relevant again...
We haven't fundamentally changed as a civilization in the last 60 years... we're still having debates on shit that should have been solved then
@@suburbanindie Wrong. It's changed a lot. Debating isn't generally allowed. Women and the men who want to please them, control all major aspects of society.
That's one reason why it's a s*** show.
@@suburbanindie 22 year old says we havent changed in 60 years. LMAO
@@dezznutz3743 since you're commenting on a show that's like 45 years old, you might want to rethink that comment
Jeez, that was hilarious!
Andrea Martin’s character reminds me of Fannie Flagg.
Dave Thomas asking for a kiss is a shot at "Just Like Mom"'s Fergie Oliver
every few months I watch these guys binge laugh!
This is hilarious 😂
God I miss this show.
Another hilarious sketch that has absolutely nothing to do with Saturday Night Live but some sad people will feel the need to compare anyway.
People are simply curious why SCTV, Mad TV, In Living Color, Friday's and Kids in the Hall are long gone but the extremely tired and unfunny SNL still chugs along like a dutifully tug boat.
@@johnprovince5304 Those shows you mentioned are gone for the usual reasons: poor ratings, cast members wanting to move on, creative differences. I enjoyed them all but I remember how the seams were showing in all of them at the end. As for SNL, everyone has a reason for liking/hating it. I was a faithful fan from 1976 to the January Jones episode in 2009. They did a parody sketch of the making of Rear Window and when they explained to the studio audience who each character was including Hitchcock himself, I knew I was no longer in the target age group. But I don't bash the show like so many do. My observation has been that many people rate the "funniness" of the show over the decades based on who the President was when a particular sketch was performed.
@@johnprovince5304 I think of it like rock bands. Some incredible bands came and went, and they cannot be discounted. Far fewer were great and also kept chugging along, as you say. Kind of like DNA. Longevity is a different Gene. Apparently much rarer. Even more so in comedy.
@@johnprovince5304 The difference between SNL and most of those other shows is that SNL was created by Lorne Michaels, and he has continued staffing it with an evolving cast. Most of those other shows were pretty much created by the ensembles themselves. They could survive an occasional departure/replacement, but when the core of the group decided to do something else, that was the end of it.
Campy. .After three Days ...well thing smell...
David Thomas does a Excellent Bob Hope impression.
Dave Thomas is just brilliant.
I thought of this idea. I didn't know they did a spoof of it. Hahaha great stuff.
My deceased great FEMINIST mom PEED herself LAUGHING herself to death from this skit.
She & I & male breeder (father) all LOVED this skit & SCTV & political incorrectness & Benny Hill & Married with Children.
The Ultimate Reductionist make breeder? Wow.
If she didn't get offended, then she wasn't a Real Feminist.
why would she be offended. The skit was making fun of male chauvinism.
@@marks6663 because *Real* Feminists have no sense of humor,
Could you imagine the s#!t storm that would cause today, the oh my god where's my safe space reaction ! ...lol...
How are people in the comments saying this couldn't be aired today? This is totally something that could be aired today. The only reason I could see it not working is because the current generation might not be familiar with the "Kids Say the Darnedest Things" format, so they wouldn't understand what its parodying. Subject matter wise though, I don't see any disconnect. It's commenting on how we treat women, not about women themselves, and the sarcasm's pretty on-the-nose to miss.
Fucking SCTV man...the funniest show in existence.
Wow! A timely satire from almost 40 years ago!!!
oh yeah, it's still nice and real (paradigms no go away so easy)
wildman2012 & ears61 : are you serious to suggest that gender equality from 40 years ago is at the same level now? This skit is funny and is a relic of the past. If this was done today, word for word, it wouldn't be funny because it doesn't reflect social reality. What country are you from?
@@tomservo5007 Just watch how trump and the Republicans treat ...old white men... the Women just elected ESPECIALLY MS. CORTES! THING HAVE NOT CHANGED THAT MUCH UNFORTUNATELY!
Feminism isn't' that bad, but some women are misandrist, yes, and they need to be called out on said misandry.
@@glenhayward1132 Cortez IS a dummy but it has nothing to do with the fact she's female. Plenty of dumb men in that Democratic party
Love SCTV
Not their best bit. SCTV wasn’t a “topical” show. Yet over the long haul, the two women, Andrea Martin and Catherine O’Hara, showed the world how funny women could be.
Three out of the last ten or so times I watched Larry King Live, he was interviewing Art Linkletter.
Brilliant comedy.
love it...those days were great.....1979 vs 2023...79 wins easily!....these days suck...
Anne's "Yes, I do" when asked if she knew what ambidextrous meant was code for "You're three seconds away from death."
I was reading some of the comments. This is kinda how women were treated on tv shows a bit though. Obviously this skit is hugely exaggerated. I found it funny
Even looking at the comments, it seems Andrea Martin is still under appreciated
Who is that first woman again? She's brilliant in every thing I have ever seen her in but dont even know her name!
@Robert Lee, Countertenor oooh yes thank you so much! I loved her in black Christmas too havent seen it in years though
I love this show but mu only complaint is that the station theme music sounds like music from the horror movie"videodrome".
Videodrome was set in Canada like this show was.
Typical of the era
My wife's aunt seems to think she's Art Linkletter.
"My name's Ann Sterling, I'm a housewife from Muncie, Indiana. "
Seriously?
😂😂😂😂
Home of Ball St and the original Ball canning jars. Now owned by some corporate conglomerate and the only thing keeping the town afloat is the college.
It's true
Wow, a lot of dense men in this comment section, totally missing the point and thinking that this sketch would offend feminists.
anything offends feminists these days.
Brilliant satire and social commentary! It's a pity that today everyone thinks that "irony" was Bert's pal on Sesame Street...
A strong statement on men's infantilization of women. Way, way ahead of its time.
Pfffftttttt whaaa? Aren't you the smug little virtue signaler?
Feel better showing your moral superiority? 😆
No, it’s a parody of “Kids say the Darnedest Things” from the 50s and 60s where the host Art Linkletter talked to kids like that.
No, that was right on time actually. Now is not the most enlightened time yet, it's just the whiniest.
Edmond Dantes Poor women are such vICtImS!!!
@@chainsawtheprinceofkarate4965 I think that you missed the point of this skit.
To be fair, being a marine biologist is a pipe dream for most people. They tend to make the final year of the course pretty much impossible after letting the students cruise through the first two... Never enough jobs for graduates.
.to "be fair" to whom exactly....ridiculous!
@@philwillett9102 To the shaddowy Marine Biologist Comittee who maintain high wages through an artificial scarcity of Marine Biologists. At least that's what I infer.
Don’t destroy her dream, Art.
Doing a Richard Dawson 😚
Good skit
Simply...outstanding! Funny 'cause it's true.
Did your husband reach you that while you were making him dinner? Just kidding.
Brilliant!!!’
Holy shit so funny