Mama called, and Dave Thomas is returning to his comedy homestead on the Second City stage in Chicago. "I've always been a good friend of Andrew Alexander (Second City's current owner)," Thomas told ...

Actor and comedian Joe Flaherty passed away on Monday, April 1 at the age of 82 following a brief illness, his daughter Gudrun Flaherty confirmed to the Toronto Star. Over the course of his ...

FILE - Former cast members of SCTV, from left, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, foreground, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy and Martin Short, pose at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival ...

Last week, the world lost comedy, TV and film legend Catherine O’Hara at the age of 71. Meanwhile, her big break sits in a content vault somewhere in frozen Canada. Then, decades passed, and, while ...

One of television’s all-time funniest series returns to the digital airwaves with Shout! Factory’s (www.shoutfactory.com) gala new five-disc set SCTV: Second City Television Volume 2 ($89.98). It’s ...

SCTV is kind of the show you didn’t know you knew: hugely influential without being popular. As far as cult sketch shows go, SCTV is one of the best. Begun in 1976 by the Toronto chapter of Second ...

Shout Factory marks a most welcome return to Melonville with its six-disc SCTV Volume 4 ($99.95), celebrating what may well have been the small screen’s best sketch-comedy series. It’s our … DVD pick ...

Though many fans of Harold Ramis, who passed away today, will spend upcoming days and weeks reminiscing about “Ghostbusters,” “Caddyshack,” and “Groundhog Day,” it’s important to remember the comedy ...

TORONTO — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness.