For armchair culture scholars, releases of shows like "SCTV" on DVD are a veritable goldmine of nostalgia. DVDs like this give you a look into television the way it was years ago. "SCTV Volume 1” is a fantastic look back into the early days of sketch comedy.
Contained within these five discs are the first nine episodes of "SCTV" after it’s conversion to a 90-minute format. It is incredibly amazing in the fact that you get to see where some of the classic skits that we have grown up on come from. Also interesting are the extras that in the boxed set. Each disc contains a documentary with the cast taking a look back on different aspects of the show, including a fantastic retrospective remembering John Candy.
The problem is that I’m not an armchair culture scholar. I never had an affinity for history and for some reason I personally don’t find these skits very funny. Maybe that’s because I’m part of the MTV generation and I’m jaded. At least, my roommate seemed to think that was the reason. He ran over to my rack of DVDs and tossed disc after disc of sketch comedy on to my lap: “In Living Color,” “Kids in the Hall,” “Chappelle's Show,” “Saturday Night Live” and more. He claimed the problem was that I had grown up on all these other sketch comedies that were so edgy that if things weren’t edgy, I couldn’t find the humor in them. Plus, he claimed, Canadians just weren’t funny.
In any case, some of the greatest comedians of all time found themselves on the set of "SCTV" and in my opinion, I don’t think they lived up to their full potential. There were definitely some funny moments, John Candy as “the Beaver” is comedic genius.
And for my roommate’s second point, I couldn’t disagree more. “The Kids in the Hall”, my all-time favorite sketch comedy troupe were Canadian. So are Mike Myers and Dan Aykroyd. Canadians are capable of vast amounts humor too funny to even begin to fathom. They have to be. They’re Canadian, and Canada is just funny.
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