Loved it. McDonald just casually mentioning he got high off some extra strong weed and went back to his room where he had the TV just on all the time, and this is what he watched.
The Gerry Todd character portrays a radio DJ perfectly by talking over the entire intro of the song and forcing himself to continue speaking right up until the exact moment the lyrics begin.
The promo copies of albums that radio stations would get actually used to have labels on the front that listed exactly how long the intro was so they could cue it up and know exactly how much time they had to hit the post before the lyrics started. Some call it a lost art but the reality is all you needed was a stopwatch and a basic understanding of what you wanted to say and the clock pretty much dictates the little bit of improvisation you are allotted. So even if it was their first time hearing the song, they had a cheat sheet.
*This Rick Moranis SCTV skit is to Ride Like the Wind like Will Ferrell's SNL "Cowbell" skit is to Don't Fear the Reaper. When you hear the song, no matter how many times you listened to it back in the day, whether on the radio, turntable, chillin', partyin', drivin', whatever..., the skit is what you think of when you hear it now...*
I remember staying up late to watch SCTV right after SNL, and this was just pure genius. The funniest part other than when he does Michael's voice at the end, is when he doesn't have time to put the headphones on and just cups his ears with his hands. I wanted to be Rick Moranis... A friend of mine and I used to improvise Bob and Doug to entertain the other kids at school. My life would not have been the same growing up without SCTV. I love all those guys with all my heart, I miss John, but later was fortunate to have a teacher at Second City who worked with and directed the original cast in Canada and when they came down to Chicago, including John and Gilda, et al. There will never be anything remotely like SCTV again...
I feel all the sentiment and memory in this, and I totally agree about how important SCTV was to our (?) generations’ concept of absurdity and humor. Long live the genius of SCTV it’s founders and the people keeping Second City going
Agreed, this was my group's bread and butter. We ate this stuff up. Amazing that we usually watched and remembered every dsmn word. It was pivotal in understanding and appreciating comedy on different levels.
Bill Hader was on Yacht Rock radio on SiriusXM radio and said this was funny so i googled it. Omg I remember seeing it and forgot how funny it was. Great stuff.
Even after many decades, this remains one of the most cherished and unforgettable skits in the history of television. The small nuances from Rick were brilliant.
I have always loved this bit. It was just one of those things that went through your mind about Michael McDonald...that he was all over 70s and 80s music. Often just adding a small part. As an SCTV fan they summarized and parodied this to perfection. Absolutely classic.
Interesting. I was curious if the bit was a pop culture reference or just an absurdist thing SCTV came up with because he had just 3 lines on this popular song. The video of him driving all over the place makes more sense now.
My wife and I go way back to April 1974 with Michael McDonald, when we first saw him in concert with the original Steely Dan lineup where he was a backing vocalist and Fender Rhodes piano player. One year later his voice dominated the chorus of their song "Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" on the "Katy Lied" album. He's been stealing the thunder from lead vocalists ever since. Rick Moranis kills in this sketch.
so jealous that you were there to see that. I was born too late but I've been listening to all the recordings of that 1974 tour and they're all amazing
@@apseudonym We call it the concert of our lifetime, because Steely Dan wouldn't tour again until August of 1993 -- and never again with the lineup we saw, which included guitarists Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias, drummers Jim Hodder and Jeff Porcaro, and backing vocalists Michael McDonald and Royce Jones. We followed Baxter and McDonald over to The Doobie Brothers to get our live music fix for the rest of the decade.
My Father worked on SCTV as a Cameraman, I have walked on the steps seen in the opening shots at ITV Edmonton main studio, my father was a freelance film and video guy and director of photography worked all over the world. what a trip watching this so many years later and its a funny skit love Chris and Micaels muaic
Classic skit, shot in Edmonton at the ITV studios. Love the driving shot where you see a Petro-Canada gas station with gas for 27.9 cents a litre. It's $1.39 now!
Michael McDonald said he was high when he saw this sketch, he thought he was hallucinating. Makes the sketch even funnier Isnt CZcams awesome. Where you can find random videos like this at moments notice
I love Rick Moranis. I love Rick Moranis. I love Rick Moranis. Love love love love him. It's all somehow perfect but indefinable. Did I mention I love him. What a genius.
This sketch and the long lost Kenny Everett Show Elton John Sketch is apart of my childhood. I am 52 and still remember both. TV and Music was so great back then. I hope kids will have just as good memories as I do. Peace Everyone.
It would be fun to have a skit where the shtick is him running back and forth between the two studios, one Ride Like The Wind and the other Peg. I guess it's a little too late now though.
Watch " Peg - Steely Dan - The Making Of" where they talk at length about Michael McDonald's sublime harmonies. "Shutter falls, all in 3D, foreign movie, Peg!" One of the greatest "background" vocals of all time.
I saw an interview with him recently where he said he returned to his hotel room after smoking some weed with Pat Simmons and saw the skit on TV. Said he thought he was hallucinating at first. 😂
I use so many references to these shows, but sadly too few appreciated them. And today's kids? Fuggetabowdit! At least my kids have some appreciation. I had the entire DVD set long before youtube.
This song came on the radio yesterday, and as soon as I heard Michael's part my mind took off... puzzling over something I knew was a great parody of what I was hearing... and about 30 seconds later it came to me and I abandoned the song to listen to this cut. LMAO - and just watched it again tonight, to enjoy the LMAO again. A buddy of mine watched SCTV religiously each week, we were 20-somthing and 40-something years later I will never forget nor forget to watch me some SCTV in order to keep my mind right about what is classy and classic comedy. What a repertoire of one-liners was built, that creep into my conversations at the appropriate moments, usually a perfect set-up for each one, too.
This might be my all time favorite SCTV piece. I still have a hunch that SNL's "I've got a fever and the prescription is more cowbell" was influenced by this.
Between 1975 and 1990, Michael McDonald and Michael Jackson were the two backup singers you always heard in virtually every song! (And a close second would be from 1970-1985 - Mick Jagger.)
I can remember first watching SCTV when I was 10, I thought the skits & spoofs were hilarious but my friend couldn’t understand the humour. My guess is that my understanding of the show was more matured than my friends. The skit with Ride Like The Wind was the first time I heard the song and I didn’t even know that it was an actual real song. Again my friends thought the song was stupid etc etc. To this day it’s 1 of my favourite songs.
SCTV was airing when I was in Highschool.It came on right after SNL. I usually skipped SNL as it was rarely funny or even remotely entertaining. SCTV never disappointed. This is one of my favorite sketches😊
I heard this song on the radio this morning for Michael's birthday. The on-air personality, on 97.1 The Drive FM, here in Chicago, mentioned this skit from "SCTV". I had to see if it was on CZcams. It is hilarious, indeed. I laughed so hard and so loud.
This is perfect on so many levels... pretty much what all the other commentors say. Its like its the summation of this entire guy's life... this one song. And the fact he tries to hide it on a day to day, moment to moment basis is what puts it over the top to being the best.
Anyone remember seeing this before even hearing his album? I never owned it til sometime earlier this century. But when i finally played the album. All i could think of was this from when i was a kid.
Came here from Rick Beato's interview with Michael. Funny as hell.
same! 😂😂
Did I scream when Rick brought up the sketch - hilarious story from MM and he even mentioned the carpet ad!
Me too 😍
Loved it. McDonald just casually mentioning he got high off some extra strong weed and went back to his room where he had the TV just on all the time, and this is what he watched.
LOL me too!
As far as I'm concerned, this is the official music video for this song.
Agreed
Absolutely!!!
Yep
There’s another? I always thought this WAS the official video.
@@s4dreamland671😄
I love the authentic touch of having the assistant engineer just sitting there doing nothing.
Muaha. Exactly.
Damned good observation!
His work is already done.
His work will never end.
Actually, I think that's the producer. Looks. like they have a score in front of them.
Rick's deep voice "Okay. See ya" at the end always gets me! 😂😂😂😂
Yeah it always gets me too. Funny stuff.
The Gerry Todd character portrays a radio DJ perfectly by talking over the entire intro of the song and forcing himself to continue speaking right up until the exact moment the lyrics begin.
Hitting the post'
Yep, they would have the seconds until vocal start handwritten on the albums.
@@masonjones1506 right on! It was usually noted as
"TTV"
aka "Time To Vocal"
I remember when DJs used to be polite.
The promo copies of albums that radio stations would get actually used to have labels on the front that listed exactly how long the intro was so they could cue it up and know exactly how much time they had to hit the post before the lyrics started. Some call it a lost art but the reality is all you needed was a stopwatch and a basic understanding of what you wanted to say and the clock pretty much dictates the little bit of improvisation you are allotted. So even if it was their first time hearing the song, they had a cheat sheet.
"Whaddaya mean Payroll didn't make the dep-- SUCH A LONG WAY TO GOHHHHH"
SCTV at its peak was unsurpassed in their brilliance
the level of satire and acting on the show was outstanding
Gerry Todd and Michael McDonald both played by Rick Moranis
Still funny after all these years
SCTV was a masterpiece. Makes SNL look like a joke. This was shot in their days in Edmonton. Tell by the traffic lights.
Michael McDonald...the greatest background singer of all time.
Or foreground.
Except Freddie Mercury when harmonizing with himself.
*This Rick Moranis SCTV skit is to Ride Like the Wind like Will Ferrell's SNL "Cowbell" skit is to Don't Fear the Reaper. When you hear the song, no matter how many times you listened to it back in the day, whether on the radio, turntable, chillin', partyin', drivin', whatever..., the skit is what you think of when you hear it now...*
;0 (emoji thumbs-up ;0)
Except when I think of this sketch, I'm thinking of the REAL Michael McDonald doing that in the sketch.
*Harry Shearer
So true
This plays overhead where I work and I always stop at his solo parts because I'm imagining Rick Moranis running to get to the microphone 🎤😂
"Okay... See ya!" Hahaha
I remember staying up late to watch SCTV right after SNL, and this was just pure genius. The funniest part other than when he does Michael's voice at the end, is when he doesn't have time to put the headphones on and just cups his ears with his hands. I wanted to be Rick Moranis... A friend of mine and I used to improvise Bob and Doug to entertain the other kids at school. My life would not have been the same growing up without SCTV. I love all those guys with all my heart, I miss John, but later was fortunate to have a teacher at Second City who worked with and directed the original cast in Canada and when they came down to Chicago, including John and Gilda, et al. There will never be anything remotely like SCTV again...
Me too. Exactly.
I feel all the sentiment and memory in this, and I totally agree about how important SCTV was to our (?) generations’ concept of absurdity and humor. Long live the genius of SCTV it’s founders and the people keeping Second City going
Agreed, this was my group's bread and butter. We ate this stuff up. Amazing that we usually watched and remembered every dsmn word.
It was pivotal in understanding and appreciating comedy on different levels.
Everytime i hear michael mcdonald i always think of this and him driving around lol😂
Bill Hader was on Yacht Rock radio on SiriusXM radio and said this was funny so i googled it. Omg I remember seeing it and forgot how funny it was. Great stuff.
I heard Hader say this, too, but I didn't need to. I've always had this video in mind every time I heard this song.
Holy shit, Hader is a fan of this sketch too? Wow. This is a longtime favorite of mine too.
I love Bill Hader!
Just as funny as the first time I saw it so many years ago. 🤣
Even after many decades, this remains one of the most cherished and unforgettable skits in the history of television. The small nuances from Rick were brilliant.
I have always loved this bit. It was just one of those things that went through your mind about Michael McDonald...that he was all over 70s and 80s music. Often just adding a small part.
As an SCTV fan they summarized and parodied this to perfection.
Absolutely classic.
This bit and the one where they use the Doobie Brothers song for a carpet commercial were two of my favorites.
Interesting. I was curious if the bit was a pop culture reference or just an absurdist thing SCTV came up with because he had just 3 lines on this popular song. The video of him driving all over the place makes more sense now.
SCTV paid IMDB radar-level attention to their details. Severely underrated show.
Do you mean ICBM radar?
Even as a 7 year old...I knew that was comedy gold
I haven`t seen this since it first aired and now I`m watching over and over again to make up for lost time!
My wife and I go way back to April 1974 with Michael McDonald, when we first saw him in concert with the original Steely Dan lineup where he was a backing vocalist and Fender Rhodes piano player. One year later his voice dominated the chorus of their song "Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" on the "Katy Lied" album. He's been stealing the thunder from lead vocalists ever since. Rick Moranis kills in this sketch.
so jealous that you were there to see that. I was born too late but I've been listening to all the recordings of that 1974 tour and they're all amazing
@@apseudonym Steely Dan broke my musical heart when they didn't give fans a concert album from that tour that ended in July 1974.
@@apseudonym We call it the concert of our lifetime, because Steely Dan wouldn't tour again until August of 1993 -- and never again with the lineup we saw, which included guitarists Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias, drummers Jim Hodder and Jeff Porcaro, and backing vocalists Michael McDonald and Royce Jones. We followed Baxter and McDonald over to The Doobie Brothers to get our live music fix for the rest of the decade.
My Father worked on SCTV as a Cameraman, I have walked on the steps seen in the opening shots at ITV Edmonton main studio, my father was a freelance film and video guy and director of photography worked all over the world. what a trip watching this so many years later and its a funny skit love Chris and Micaels muaic
did he get to meet Sammy Maudlin, Bobby Bittman, Bob & Doug, Ed Grimley, Edith Prickly and Guy Caballero ?
How could anyone dislike this?... Unless they're unable to ride like the wind? ;)
Classic skit, shot in Edmonton at the ITV studios. Love the driving shot where you see a Petro-Canada gas station with gas for 27.9 cents a litre. It's $1.39 now!
🥺 29cents per liter
You know it's Canada if it's " litres " and not " liters " , eh ?
174.9 now.
@@egreenbery ahhh yes the leetrey
I watched this back in early 1980 when I was 16 funny show! Miss John Candy, he was a one of a kind, Joe Flaherty pure talent.
Watching him bust his ass to get back in the studio after arguing with the guy will never not be funny.
I can't stop laughing at the skit it is so funny😂😂😂😂😂
Michael McDonald said he was high when he saw this sketch, he thought he was hallucinating.
Makes the sketch even funnier
Isnt CZcams awesome.
Where you can find random videos like this at moments notice
This is a riot! SCTV was incredible comedy!
I will never hear this song without thinking of this bit.
Brilliant Canadian humour
I had no idea SCTV was a thing but this is just brilliant.
I think of this video every time I hear this song.
Excellent
I love Rick Moranis.
I love Rick Moranis.
I love Rick Moranis.
Love love love love him.
It's all somehow perfect but indefinable.
Did I mention I love him.
What a genius.
Oh-Kay. See Ya.
I looooooooved SCTV back in the day! Great memories 😊
He probably has to rush over to that studio every time this song is played somewhere.
The best show of the '80s.
This sketch and the long lost Kenny Everett Show Elton John Sketch is apart of my childhood. I am 52 and still remember both. TV and Music was so great back then. I hope kids will have just as good memories as I do. Peace Everyone.
Brilliant 😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I don't know what came over me, but I took a stab at youtube-ing this.
Seems so different now but still lauged out loud. 😀
So funny, dear Lord, this is so freakin' insane. I'm crying...... Michael Mcdonald signing paperwork and then running back into the studio... M
Young Mike's frantic efforts to keep it smooth were without parallel.
2:03 I believe the studio was booked the following week by Steely Dan for "Peg".
It would be fun to have a skit where the shtick is him running back and forth between the two studios, one Ride Like The Wind and the other Peg.
I guess it's a little too late now though.
@@atallguynh he wouldn't-a had time to run back-n-forth, with that 'peg' chorus... ;0
😁
Watch " Peg - Steely Dan - The Making Of" where they talk at length about Michael McDonald's sublime harmonies. "Shutter falls, all in 3D, foreign movie, Peg!" One of the greatest "background" vocals of all time.
Every time I hear this song I always think of this skit. I wonder what Michael McDonald thinks, I would laugh if I was him.
According to Wikipedia, he loved the sketch, and told Rick Moranis that they were all laughing so hard, when he watched it with the Doobie Brothers.
I saw an interview with him recently where he said he returned to his hotel room after smoking some weed with Pat Simmons and saw the skit on TV. Said he thought he was hallucinating at first. 😂
Brilliant
Love those Canadians !
Funny as hell !
Moranis was brilliant. I remember the bit of Jerry Todd singing Da Do Da Da from the Police. Just excellent. Great memories.
Apparently McDonald first watched this whilst high as a kite.
Omg I remember watching this way back. SCTV was hilarious!
Absolutely, and Shadoobee! Saw the Stones again in St. Louis for 6th time. Pit 1 on their tour's opening night.
@@eg4449, "Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best"
@@jackflash5659 to live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough....
I use so many references to these shows, but sadly too few appreciated them. And today's kids? Fuggetabowdit! At least my kids have some appreciation. I had the entire DVD set long before youtube.
Haha classic and genius, man the 80s was dope!
Tim Heidecker just turned me in to this, July 2021
OK
My daughter had this song playing so I sent her this version later 😂
She thought it was hilarious!
MIKE COME BACK I'M SORRY I LAUGHED
"Am I an irrelevant joke, Jim Moosina?"
GO GO TOTO GO!
😂😂😂 Michael McDonald was EVERYWHERE in the late 70s andninto the 80s!
Always singing the same lyrics as the main singer, word for word.😂
Geddy Lee(Rush) says he went to grade school with Rick Moranis. Cheers!🥨
this is why we must at all costs protect Rick Moranis.
This song came on the radio yesterday, and as soon as I heard Michael's part my mind took off... puzzling over something I knew was a great parody of what I was hearing... and about 30 seconds later it came to me and I abandoned the song to listen to this cut. LMAO - and just watched it again tonight, to enjoy the LMAO again.
A buddy of mine watched SCTV religiously each week, we were 20-somthing and 40-something years later I will never forget nor forget to watch me some SCTV in order to keep my mind right about what is classy and classic comedy.
What a repertoire of one-liners was built, that creep into my conversations at the appropriate moments, usually a perfect set-up for each one, too.
This is great. I don't know how I missed it until now.
This might be my all time favorite SCTV piece. I still have a hunch that SNL's "I've got a fever and the prescription is more cowbell" was influenced by this.
Between 1975 and 1990, Michael McDonald and Michael Jackson were the two backup singers you always heard in virtually every song! (And a close second would be from 1970-1985 - Mick Jagger.)
Up there with Luther Vandross, Donny Hathaway, Joey Scarbury, Carl Anderson, J.D. Souther, etc...
David Schwartz sent me... 22/12/23.
223/23... Ride Like the Wind = 156... 156th Prime = 911.
I love this. He was all over the place in 70s and 80s. Pure sound. Can recognize it a million miles away!😊
Damn those cars were real boats back in the day.
I think it's a '64 Ford Falcon, which wasn't a very big car...it's smaller than the current Mustang.
@@williamshaw9047 '64 Galaxie
I guess a vehicle that's considered a boat would fit perfectly with what's now called Yacht Rock.
I can remember first watching SCTV when I was 10, I thought the skits & spoofs were hilarious but my friend couldn’t understand the humour. My guess is that my understanding of the show was more matured than my friends. The skit with Ride Like The Wind was the first time I heard the song and I didn’t even know that it was an actual real song. Again my friends thought the song was stupid etc etc. To this day it’s 1 of my favourite songs.
Comic genius. Moranis
The lackluster resolution of this vid makes him look even more like McDonald. Amazing..
SCTV was airing when I was in Highschool.It came on right after SNL. I usually skipped SNL as it was rarely funny or even remotely entertaining. SCTV never disappointed.
This is one of my favorite sketches😊
This is hilarious ...love the Michael impersonator LOL
It is Rick Moraines
Moranis
I love this bit! So funny and original! We need to bring back shows like this!
As a MmD and CC fan, this is pure gold.
I haven't seen this since it aired in the early 80s- and it is as funny now as then.
Bill Hader sent me here from Sirius XM
No, he didnt
This legit describes McDonald in the 70s and I love it.
I heard this song on the radio this morning for Michael's birthday. The on-air personality, on 97.1 The Drive FM, here in Chicago, mentioned this skit from "SCTV". I had to see if it was on CZcams. It is hilarious, indeed. I laughed so hard and so loud.
this was funny as hell!
His disgust over the contract is hilarious
Right! He was like, "I thought I clearly told you that it should say.....wait, hold up..... Such a long way to gooooohhh!"😄
this was used very well in episode 4 of Yacht Rock 🙂
Just saw this from Rick Beato’s 😂😂😂❤️✅🇨🇦🇺🇸
I LOVE THAT SONG
I grew up in Edmonton where this was filmed. It was a cool, weird little island of time and place. SCTV, Wayne Gretzky, the largest mall in the world…
This is perfect on so many levels... pretty much what all the other commentors say.
Its like its the summation of this entire guy's life... this one song.
And the fact he tries to hide it on a day to day, moment to moment basis is what puts it over the top to being the best.
Comic genius. Love it.
God, this is funny! 😁
This is just GREAT lmao
Heard about this on SiriusXM Yacht Rock radio had to come take a look!!
✅ here from Rick Beato
It's Reminds Me Of 1979 Pontiac Firebird Formula Most Beautiful From The 70s Muscle Car Totally Amazing Badass
I had never seen this til the Beato clip. Funny
Just read about this in Michael McDonalds memoir, so good
Anyone remember seeing this before even hearing his album? I never owned it til sometime earlier this century. But when i finally played the album. All i could think of was this from when i was a kid.
"Hitting the post"
Long ago, regular gasoline 27.3c/L.
I just shed a tear seeing that.
Here because of Joelkats
Rob Lowe’s podcast with Martin Short, sent me here
;0 this bit still makes me =cackle madly!!= ;0
Rick Moranis 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Sounds like Micheal McDonald, looks like Martin Scorsese