Jump the Weeds
John Candy and the rest of the SCTV crew mock a certain little fictional redheaded Swedish girl.
[Link: Pepi Longsocks]
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Chester's Chillers
As I've mentioned previously, I was once shamefully involved in that last refuge of the scoundrel...public access television...where I scripted and played bit parts in an extremely low-budget, horror-hosted anthology of films and cartoons in the public domain, called Chester's Chillers.
My then-partner in televised crimes against humanity, Rob Mattison, has been working overtime, digitally capturing the very worst of these ancient episodes from the studio vaults, and uploading them to YouTube for your viewing displeasure. The clips have been edited so only the interstitial bits remain, which means that you don't get any cool films or cartoons, just the skits that were performed in-between. Rob's got 4 episodes up, and if you can bear to sit through them, you'll see a definite evolution (and improvement) in the characters of manic host, Chester, and his smartass baseball-bat sidekick, Woody. I'm particularly fond of episode #4, in which we mocked a couple of conspiracy wingnuts who were appearing on the same public-access channel at the time (1994). The episodes in which I appeared haven't been uploaded yet, and when they are, I'm certainly not going to call undue attention to them for fear of extreme mortification, but those of you who know me will recognize my bad self instantly.
[Link: Chester's Chillers on YouTube]