The Shmenges: The Last Polka

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  • čas přidán 7. 09. 2016
  • I had this film on another channel, but I'm restructuring the content of that channel and this no longer "fit."
    It's a great mockumentary from 1985 featuring the inimitable Shmenge Brothers from SCTV played by John Candy and Eugene Levy. It also features great appearances from SCTV regulars Rick Moranis, Robin Duke, and Catherine O'Hara with some fun narration from Dave Thomas.
    If this is ever released on DVD, this video will be removed from CZcams.

Komentáře • 799

  • @dezznutz3743
    @dezznutz3743 Před 3 lety +175

    After all these years, I still miss John Candy.

    • @ianboard544
      @ianboard544 Před rokem +2

      Really. He's in that rare class of comic, like Curly of the three stooges, who is so naturally funny he didn't have to do a thing and I'd start laughing.

    • @aleclyrae1804
      @aleclyrae1804 Před 9 měsíci

      Did John site the original use of the joke line, "deeznutz?

    • @alienlifeform7490
      @alienlifeform7490 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Indeed. He was a great gift to us all. Just a good man, through and through.

    • @bluebird3042
      @bluebird3042 Před 5 měsíci

      So do I! I just loved him!

    • @eyeseer1
      @eyeseer1 Před 4 měsíci +1

      John Candy would be 73 if still alive.

  • @MikePuorro
    @MikePuorro Před 2 lety +160

    When satire becomes so refined it's indistinguishable from reality. This is amazing! Genius!

    • @Playsinvain
      @Playsinvain Před rokem

      Yes. You have nailed it, but does the illusion not live on?

    • @devinangola3458
      @devinangola3458 Před rokem +4

      @@Playsinvain you’re here watching it so YES!
      Cabbage rolls and coffee my friend!😉

    • @anthonypeterson428
      @anthonypeterson428 Před měsícem

      That was one of their problems. Sometimes their parodies were so perfect that they were indistinguishable from the original pieces.

    • @user-gx2yy1df6f
      @user-gx2yy1df6f Před měsícem

      they made full length features, " Waiting for Guffman" "Best in show" "A mighty wind " you must see best in show , it's a riot, they all are .

    • @kikiLynch
      @kikiLynch Před 6 dny

      YES that is what I wanted to say but could not think of a way to say this it is indistinguishable from reality its genius nothing like it

  • @elijahchesterthomas5334
    @elijahchesterthomas5334 Před 2 lety +151

    As a roadie for the 85' tour, I have to say these two were both Zappa level musical geniuses. We'll never see another like them.

    • @robkunkel8833
      @robkunkel8833 Před 8 měsíci +4

      … and neither will we.
      Thank you for your service. 🇺🇸

    • @cheechalker8430
      @cheechalker8430 Před 8 měsíci +6

      I went to a show on that tour! I told my husband “there is bologna in the fridge, you want to eat, you know where to get it …..”

    • @dickJohnsonpeter
      @dickJohnsonpeter Před 8 měsíci

      Peiner weines

    • @siriusley13
      @siriusley13 Před 7 měsíci +4

      Anybody have the recipe for surprise balls? I may or may not put raisins in! Lol

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@cheechalker8430 Who was the opening act? Don't tell me it was the 5 Neat Guys?

  • @jeshkam
    @jeshkam Před 5 měsíci +3

    John Candy moonwalking to a polka version of "Beat It"...I've seen it all, I can die now...🤣😂

  • @benprewitt4600
    @benprewitt4600 Před 4 lety +79

    "So we said 'Why do we need an agent to lose our money for us, we can lose it ourselves?'"
    I'M DYING. PERFECT.

    • @elijahrobinson2362
      @elijahrobinson2362 Před 3 lety +6

      And what business sense...instead of paying 75% to an agent they cut that by a full third, only paying themselves 50%.
      GENIUS!!!

    • @pavanatanaya
      @pavanatanaya Před 3 lety

      The 75% was to look after the other 25%

    • @elijahrobinson2362
      @elijahrobinson2362 Před 3 lety +1

      @@pavanatanaya, yes, but they cut out the middle man...and paid it all to themselves. Twice.

  • @edsheldon401
    @edsheldon401 Před 4 lety +191

    They opened for Foghat for years. Very underated band. Their version of the Pusher, by Steppenwolf was so passionate I started taking drugs after seeing them.

    • @robkunkel8833
      @robkunkel8833 Před 3 lety +6

      Why U wait so long to start taking the drugs? Have fun all the time that’s the way that’s nice, 09:17 A lovely barbecue fire in the back. Great flame!

    • @sarahdee374
      @sarahdee374 Před 3 lety +13

      I surely wish I had seen them live before they retired! I don't know which brother is hotter! I can see why the rumor about the Lemon sisters, what woman wouldn't want them?

    • @speez6106
      @speez6106 Před 3 lety +7

      Remember the Smegmie Dead?

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 Před rokem +9

      I liked their rendition of The Beatles' Glass Onion. I think it was Stan who thought to substitute 'onion', with 'cabbage'. Yosh even got John Lennon, a big Shmenge Bros fan, to agree to do backing vocals, but tragically he was shot only weeks before they were expecting him at their studio.

    • @Martin-iv6lq
      @Martin-iv6lq Před rokem

      Your mom opened for Foghat

  • @alexc8356
    @alexc8356 Před 2 lety +95

    One of the greatest Lutonian, brother, polka/comedy duo's of all time. Certainly top 5!

    • @chaplainmattsanders4884
      @chaplainmattsanders4884 Před rokem +6

      😂 top five 😂

    • @sterlingfury
      @sterlingfury Před rokem +2

      Absofreakinlutely...Lutonian Legends...my parents had all of their albums...all 88

    • @fjccommish
      @fjccommish Před 5 dny +1

      Strikes, Spares, and Schmenges put them over the top.

  • @devinangola3458
    @devinangola3458 Před 3 lety +102

    The Shmenge brothers were big influences as a young Polka head and shaped my life as a musician. It started a under ground scene of hardcore/thrash polka that led to the Pierogi polka of the late 90's.
    Bands like Babushka in chains, Cabbage., Astropolk, B.O.R.S.H and Nirvana.
    ,

  • @steelers6titles
    @steelers6titles Před 4 lety +74

    Grew up in Western Pa.; live near Cleveland. This is dead-on.

    • @SGusky
      @SGusky Před 3 lety

      Old Brooklyn here and I agree!!!

    • @Frank-dv4zu
      @Frank-dv4zu Před 3 lety +1

      yinz guys are right!

    • @steelers6titles
      @steelers6titles Před 3 lety +1

      @@Frank-dv4zu Double yoi (R.I.P. Myron Cope)

    • @Frank-dv4zu
      @Frank-dv4zu Před 3 lety +1

      @@steelers6titles RIP indeed; Myron was a legend, and still is!

    • @steelers6titles
      @steelers6titles Před 3 lety +1

      @Jo O Yeah. Too Fat Polka.

  • @stevecathym3566
    @stevecathym3566 Před 4 lety +102

    Florence Jucker, the violinist in the Happy Wanderers band, passed away July 24 this past summer. She was an extremely talented performer, playing violin since she was 6 years old. She could play anything on that fiddle/violin and did. Performing with her younger sister Andrea, as the Hansen Sisters in the 1950's with notables as Guy Lombardo, George Burns, and at Expo 67. They did TV shows such as the Tommy Hunter show, and performed for the Canadian Armed Forces. After her sister left for the USA with her husband, Florence convinced her daughter Deb to play with her as the Hansen Singing Strings. That's Deb playing the acoustic guitar in the band here as well.

    • @williamseible4345
      @williamseible4345 Před 3 lety

      This was just cut and pasted from their Wikipedia Page.

    • @stevecathym3566
      @stevecathym3566 Před 3 lety +1

      @@williamseible4345 I attended Florence's funeral in 2019. We are friends with her daughter Deb.

    • @breakfastsurreal5650
      @breakfastsurreal5650 Před 3 lety

      @@stevecathym3566 did they mention her work?

  • @TJ-kk5zf
    @TJ-kk5zf Před 4 lety +240

    this was wonderfully gentle, loving, sentimental, PATIENT comedy. SCTV was great and so underrated

    • @markopolo244
      @markopolo244 Před 4 lety +10

      @I Em Hoo I Iz So many memorable characters. Edith Prickley, Mrs. Falbo, Count Floyd, Johnny LaRue, Guy Caballero. Lola Heatherton, Earl Camembert, Bobby Bittman, Bob and Doug MacKenzie. And, especially, Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok. Used to love when they blowed up people... blowed 'em up real good!

    • @danielstewart7163
      @danielstewart7163 Před 4 lety +6

      @I Em Hoo I Iz Martin Short did Ed Grimly on snl too.

    • @tomaswalsh-gomez8042
      @tomaswalsh-gomez8042 Před 3 lety +5

      Thank goodness for Canadians!

    • @cthrew1603
      @cthrew1603 Před 3 lety +4

      And non-partisan, thank God!

    • @stankatic8182
      @stankatic8182 Před 3 lety +6

      Used to come on after Saturday Night Live on Channel 5 in Chicago. Enjoying it even more than SNL.

  • @edjo487
    @edjo487 Před 10 měsíci +19

    The Lemon twins! All three of them! Scandalous! Brilliantly done. Mary Margaret O’Hara is so underrated. In reality, such a beautiful voice. Her solo work is legendary. This “documentary” is right up there with Spinal Tap and Mighty Wind. I did not know it existed but it was such a great find. John Candy died so young, and I could only dream of what we missed out on with such a great comedian-a true genius.

    • @user-gx2yy1df6f
      @user-gx2yy1df6f Před měsícem

      Loved A mighty wind, " I was abused, musically" meanwhile his wife was a well you know ! ever see "Best in show " ? must see !

  • @dasse1588
    @dasse1588 Před 5 lety +70

    Eugene Levi and John Candy. Playing the parents in the beginning had me on the floor

  • @jaylew8408
    @jaylew8408 Před 3 lety +169

    You can take any 20 minute portion from this, either in the beginning , middle, end, wherever and it's more entertaining, humorous, and much better written then 90% of what is considered comedy nowadays

    • @BinaryJoe
      @BinaryJoe Před rokem +8

      Apparently this gets truer every year.
      May I recommend some Smothers Brothers, also?

    • @stephenzevetchin
      @stephenzevetchin Před rokem

      Same with all mediums.
      Sour and stupid unread liberals are humorless snot eaters lying to ypu but bieving they speak truth.

    • @HankBukowski
      @HankBukowski Před rokem

      You've probably seen .01% of all new comedy.
      Maybe you're just lazy.

    • @dwnnn7390
      @dwnnn7390 Před rokem

      So true

    • @HUNDREDACREWOOD.
      @HUNDREDACREWOOD. Před rokem

      this stuff is just stupid...not funny.

  • @stevenmqcueen7576
    @stevenmqcueen7576 Před rokem +11

    While many say The Beatles were the greatest band of all time, I think it was The Shmenges. Their "Composite Sole" album was a musical breakthrough. With such hits as "Drive My Ox Cart Polka," "Lutonian Wood Polka," "No? Then Where, Man? Polka," Mitchell Polka" "I'm :Looking Through Your Sox Drawer Polka" and "Run for Your Borscht Polka," it changed music forever. And they are still the only band ever to sell out the Schaumberg Ice Arena in Bismark, ND three nights in a row.

  • @brian-ld4vd
    @brian-ld4vd Před 2 měsíci +2

    That Tuba Solo should be given space in the Polka Hall of Fame!!!

  • @elliemiller74
    @elliemiller74 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Occasionally, I sing "Cabbage Rolls and Coffee" to myself, and I realize the influence the Shmenge Brothers have had on my life.

  • @freedapeeple4049
    @freedapeeple4049 Před 4 lety +105

    I'm seeing all kinds of SCTV on CZcams that I somehow managed to miss in the 80s. It was always more consistently funny than SNL

    • @TheLadsBandLive
      @TheLadsBandLive Před 4 lety +2

      The only time SNL came close to SCTV was season 10 with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, Rich Hall, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest. Foregoing the "young, newcomer cast" for seasoned veterans willing to take chances and adding more prerecorded segments over the live sketches. The tone was intentionally more SCTV and creative and, coincidentally, my favorite season, by far. Sadly, Lorne Michaels returned the next season and blew the whole thing up and went back to the more miss-than-hit sketch format.

    • @jonaspeterson5040
      @jonaspeterson5040 Před 4 lety +1

      Without knowing the fine details I would say that this wasn't SCTV. This was an independent venture by eugene and john

    • @brograb898
      @brograb898 Před 3 lety +3

      A bit of both. It started as an SCTV sketch that Levy and Candy developed into a mockumentary

    • @robertbradley6393
      @robertbradley6393 Před 3 lety +1

      I am also and loving all of it!

    • @smb9308
      @smb9308 Před 3 lety +2

      Hang on. Curtain, Radner, Ackroyd, Belushi, Chase, Murray... The original cast was phenomenal. SCTV was more accessible sketch comedy, where SNL was prime time Pop culture. SNL can be argued to have come from the likes of SCTV

  • @laurapickman9415
    @laurapickman9415 Před 4 lety +59

    I miss the Schmemge Brothers.

  • @harveyvid
    @harveyvid Před 4 lety +44

    Gippy Glynski is the Geddy Lee of the tuba!

  • @marycoleman221
    @marycoleman221 Před 4 lety +62

    This is still a favorite of my family. We can’t listen to anyone else sing “On the Road Again” and “Touch Me” without thinking of the great Linsk Minyk (Rick Moranis).

    • @nelsonx5326
      @nelsonx5326 Před 4 lety +6

      Linsk the legend.

    • @vestibulate
      @vestibulate Před 3 lety +7

      Mary Coleman I hope this isn't too much of an inside story, but you may know that the Shmenge act is partly a send-up of the ultra-square Lawrence Welk show. The Lemon Sisters are based on the Lennon Sisters who performed each week with Welk's band. Anyway, the character of Linsk Minyk, who left the Shmenges to carve out a name for himself as a solo, is a bow to popular clarinetist Pete Fountain, who departed the Welk show for bigger things and made good. Fountain was a jazz musician trapped in a polka scene, rather like Minyk who longed to enter the musical mainstream of his day.

    • @marycoleman221
      @marycoleman221 Před 3 lety +2

      @@vestibulate thanks for the info! I love trivia and backstories.

    • @Watery_Tart
      @Watery_Tart Před 3 lety +6

      My uncle is the one who on Christmas Eve says, "it's time for the exchanging of the socks"

  • @alankelly-hamm2702
    @alankelly-hamm2702 Před 4 lety +82

    I seen the Shmenge Brothers when I was just a boy back in the 1970's. They comed to my hometown Smoglasviniabrad to preform at the Cow Castration Festival. They were such a hit. My mama and my papa arranged to have me and my Bar Miftza guest to go to the concert. It was the thrill of my entire life. I have all their records and which I play all the time. So much so good.

    • @alankelly-hamm2702
      @alankelly-hamm2702 Před 4 lety +6

      @Tim Mentzer Yes the Christmas eve sock switching, then we all ate the Hooglefloogle cake. We had so much fun, we laughed and we laughed.

    • @fewerbeansplease
      @fewerbeansplease Před 4 lety +2

      I just couldn't fit in so I went to Harvard.

    • @56squadron
      @56squadron Před 4 lety +11

      @@alankelly-hamm2702 - Those were good times. We lived in Caspiar (before it sank) and I remember my uncle Jzoshtek telling me the story of how he met the Shmenge Brothers in Kaplocziewks Cafe in Oostvakia and they were so down to earth. They even invited him to sit with them and shared their cabbage rolls and coffee, and afterwards they even signed his bowling ball. He was so grateful he bought them a prune knudle for dessert. Człowiek nie wielbłąd, pić musi!

    • @matthiasschmatz8101
      @matthiasschmatz8101 Před 4 lety +6

      Me bean wiss sem to Wysocky College. Head a lottoff party with goot polka. Se Shmenghes rilly rockt se plase. Staddied sen raisin off cabbage and cow psychilogia. Batt miss may time fulla lauvter and fun.

    • @DoomerZ666
      @DoomerZ666 Před 3 lety +4

      Wow! All 88 albums? What a true shmenge enthusiast! I only own 73 of them.

  • @stuartshapiro6626
    @stuartshapiro6626 Před 3 lety +17

    Ladies and gentlemen this applies to anything that the SCTV people produced :How often in our lifetimes do we get to see geniuses at work how lucky we are!

  • @davidrogers2085
    @davidrogers2085 Před 3 lety +62

    Pound for pound, the members of SCTV blew SNL's cast off the friggin map. Shame on me. This is the first time I've watched this. I laughed my ass off. John Candy aka Johnny La Rue was a gem. The comedy world took a hard hit when he passed away. And Eugene Levy aka Bobby Bitman, God bless him as well as Candy.

    • @glennjames7107
      @glennjames7107 Před rokem +5

      Pretty much all of the early celebrities that SNL produced originally cut their teeth at SCTV.
      I think it's safe to say that SNL got famous by featuring SCTV comics. Had it not been for SCTV, SNL wouldn't be here !

    • @futuristica1710
      @futuristica1710 Před 19 dny

      There you are! The guy who rants “this is better than SNL”.

  • @c.s.mcleod7383
    @c.s.mcleod7383 Před 11 měsíci +4

    7:48 Yosh:"It was almost a moving experience". Genius writing

  • @ChuckMock3826
    @ChuckMock3826 Před 4 lety +43

    You just have to love a good tuba solo.... LOL

  • @revk8611
    @revk8611 Před 8 měsíci +14

    This was simply brilliant. The period pieces, costumes, the production value, it seems like a real documentary. Rick Moranis is a comic genius.

  • @Mr22thou
    @Mr22thou Před 5 lety +101

    Eugene Levy & John Candy make those characters so believable & lovable. Nice job, fellas!

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 Před 3 lety +7

      They're amazing. The entire cast was impressive. Love Andrea Martin, too. Was hoping she'd be in this. Catherine O'Hara is, and she's brilliant, too.

  • @rickl5596
    @rickl5596 Před 3 lety +48

    I'm going to tell my wife that I found a very interesting documentary about a famous polka band and watch this with her and see how long it takes her to punch me hah

    • @Rooneytunes01
      @Rooneytunes01 Před 3 lety +4

      Rick L how’d that go?? Lol

    • @misterbojangles6205
      @misterbojangles6205 Před 3 lety +1

      Merk: I did that very joke on 'everybody' back when, still blackNblue. Back in the days when we could still make fun of each other.

    • @scottvelardo700
      @scottvelardo700 Před 3 lety +1

      Let us know how is went!

    • @dahlia58
      @dahlia58 Před 3 lety +1

      Lmao

  • @centerice
    @centerice Před rokem +37

    The effort that went into this short is just absolutely insane. All the period correct costumes and wardrobe, EVEN the Photographic types and technics. Someone was a total perfectionist who put this together. It is really quite unbelievable. Look at the costumes and eyeglasses (all correct) and the high contrast black and white photographs made at 14:56. This is really more like a movie, than something you'd expect on a skit show.

    • @lanelambert6681
      @lanelambert6681 Před rokem

      Lol lol lol 99

    • @GoldenNuggetRec
      @GoldenNuggetRec Před 11 měsíci

      Its not a short its a long

    • @sadrablue
      @sadrablue Před 10 měsíci

      This was great. It should be played throughout the upper Midwest on the anniversary of their retirement.

    • @mrveritas700
      @mrveritas700 Před 5 měsíci

      Toronto + the GTA had a massive European community with many props and old stories to work with...

  • @JerryAulenbach
    @JerryAulenbach Před 4 lety +36

    Rick Moranis was fantastic!

    • @assmane999
      @assmane999 Před 4 lety +1

      Jerry Aulenbach He’s scary good. He’s almost unrecognizable because he completely transforms into his characters

    • @AndyBHome
      @AndyBHome Před 4 lety +1

      I'll never forget when he started on SCTV. I thought, "who is this guy, this interloper?" He proceeded to blow my mind on every episode. Then he went to Hollywood and somehow his magic never quite came through, even if he did some of the biggest movies of the years he was active. Ah well. This is something I never saw until tonight and it's wonderful! Rick Moranis's part is as good as ever.

    • @assmane999
      @assmane999 Před 4 lety +3

      Andy B He got type-cast as the nerdy, sciencey guy in movies, so Hollywood never really explored his full potential as a very versatile comedic actor. However, he was brilliant in “Spaceballs”. His magic came through in that role.

  • @jacklinonis3719
    @jacklinonis3719 Před 4 lety +80

    Cabbage Rolls and Coffee!!!

  • @eiros59
    @eiros59 Před 8 měsíci +2

    John Candy with 4 inch wide chops is what I needed today

  • @michaellandon1960
    @michaellandon1960 Před 3 lety +3

    John Candy would be so proud that people remember him today as Yash Shmenge. Google Strikes Spares Shmenges

  • @BethyKable
    @BethyKable Před 3 lety +52

    I missed all these Canadian shows growing up in America....never realized how many of our top-notch comedians came from this show! These two, Martin Short, CatherineO Hara, Fred Willard, Harold Ramos, etc.... they were so talented.....RIP dear John! Love the huge fire raging out of control in the background too.....with the fire department coming to put it out! Supremely funny!

    • @ohthelovelypoems
      @ohthelovelypoems Před 3 lety +3

      BethyKable, It ran in my area of Southern Illinois back in the day. I loved this crazy crew and all the characters they created, great skits. I can still remember some their lines and love when any of them show up in a movie or show. And when Eugene and his son announced they had created a new series I was a Schitt's Creek fan with the first episode. So good to see them and Catherine O'Hara do their thing along with some other zany cast.

    • @stuartshapiro6626
      @stuartshapiro6626 Před 3 lety +1

      You are right

    • @Psilocybin77
      @Psilocybin77 Před 3 lety +1

      I was laughing and thinking how dangerous and expensive that scene must have been. They did it though because it is hilarious.

    • @breakfastsurreal5650
      @breakfastsurreal5650 Před 3 lety +1

      Ramis

    • @jeastwood2737
      @jeastwood2737 Před 2 lety

      Fred Willard was performing with The Ace Trucking Company in Greenwich Village in the late 1960s,... I knew him... I was a folksinger ... I imagine all these people were/are as nice as he was

  • @1982kinger
    @1982kinger Před rokem +2

    Canadian comedy is very subtle but often flamboyant and over the top... similar to British

  • @carlosspeicywiener7018
    @carlosspeicywiener7018 Před rokem +6

    Literally eating cabbage rolls and coffee right now. Ah, good times.

  • @makeadifference4all
    @makeadifference4all Před 4 lety +49

    It's like a kinder, gentler Borat. 🤣

  • @Greg-bz2bf
    @Greg-bz2bf Před 4 lety +20

    I was in high school in the 1970s when SCTV was on TV. I still get a good chuckle watching SCTV 40 years later. Thanks for the memories.

    • @tarnsand440
      @tarnsand440 Před 3 lety +4

      I think CBC should rerun these....much better than what's on now.

  • @TheCombatartist
    @TheCombatartist Před 5 lety +62

    Talk about a production! The cameos, the set-up, the sets - outstanding!

  • @johnevans5434
    @johnevans5434 Před 4 lety +27

    Candy & Levy: Talent Personified

    • @bonniewep
      @bonniewep Před 3 lety +1

      met both of them years ago when they were in Kitchener - they were the parade marshals for Oktoberfest [as the Shmenges] rip John Candy

  • @larrydickman6016
    @larrydickman6016 Před 8 měsíci +5

    I remember at one of their concerts, they brought out a Tshirt cannon. They had no tshirts and since Leutonia didn't have their own 'national food', the Schmenges just shot pierogi into the audience. What a hoot that was. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. 😭

  • @thezenboy
    @thezenboy Před 7 měsíci +2

    I was a young fan in 1984. After the Jordan, Ontario show I was invited backstage by one of the violin players. It was one of the most depraved yet liberating experiences of my young life. To this day I can’t see a cabbage roll without intense feelings.

  • @GinaSigillito
    @GinaSigillito Před 2 měsíci +4

    God bless you for uploading this. I’m crying with laughter. This is so wholesome.

  • @debl9957
    @debl9957 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Best tuba solo of all the Shmenge Brothers and Linsk Minyk shows I've been to!

  • @helengkin
    @helengkin Před 4 lety +11

    I thought this had disappeared from the face of the earth! Classic

  • @mikebell8940
    @mikebell8940 Před 4 lety +38

    I loved SCTV they came up with some funny characters

  • @freedapeeple4049
    @freedapeeple4049 Před 4 lety +19

    I might just have to make a t-shirt that says "Cabbage rolls and coffee... mmmm mmm good!"

    • @AndyBHome
      @AndyBHome Před 4 lety +1

      I want dishes, and coffee cups!

  • @dxrinc
    @dxrinc Před 4 lety +10

    The TUBA solo brought tears to my eyes.....

  • @jamessoltis5407
    @jamessoltis5407 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I thought Val Babbyit was being interviewed in the upper floors of an office building, until I saw various legs walking by the window. It’s little details like this that makes this movie so enjoyable to me.

  • @d5christ
    @d5christ Před 3 lety +29

    30:28 One of the greatest tuba solos of all time.

    • @dartdom
      @dartdom Před rokem +1

      Good Lord - He just squirted an enormous Tuba-Shmenge all over that stage!
      Brilliant ! Stunningly brilliant !

    • @nilsbrown7996
      @nilsbrown7996 Před 8 měsíci

      They never actually make fun of the music, I noticed, and this cadenza/drum solo shines a light on the talent involved in Polka music. What a brilliant hour of entertainment all around. Just genius the economy they achieve with these antics. Can’t believe it..

  • @eugenelayton5231
    @eugenelayton5231 Před 8 měsíci +5

    Shh.... Don't tell anybody but I have an original copy of the Shmenge's Lost Basement Tapes 1967-1969. These are golden. Alternate versions of some of their greatest polkas, with rare audio of them arguing over who can boil the best cabbage. This is what Shmenge aficionados around the world are drooling for. Long live the Shmenge brothers.

  • @garydalie7051
    @garydalie7051 Před 6 lety +38

    Dave Thomas' narration is awesome!

  • @duster71
    @duster71 Před rokem +5

    Saw them open for Spinal Tap,they were the life of the after-party. Yosh and Stan brought the cabbage rolls and coffee.

  • @mikewynne7131
    @mikewynne7131 Před 3 lety +21

    As a kid, I lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan about 100 miles north of Green Bay Wisconsin. Every Sunday morning in the late 60's and early 70's there was a TV show called The Alvin Styczynski Polka Party (or something like that). Me and my sister would crack-up laughing watching that show. It made Hee Haw look like Evening at Pops with Arthur Fiedler. The Shmenge Brothers were a great parody of Alvin Styczynski and similar shows all over the Midwest. czcams.com/video/foDWjCxZXC0/video.html

    • @RWildekrav66
      @RWildekrav66 Před měsícem

      In Chicago we had Frankie Yankovic , the Polka Rythem King ! Schmenge’s were Better , Cabbage rolls and coffee!!! Mmmm Mmmm Good .

  • @NomadicBrian
    @NomadicBrian Před 3 lety +12

    It was a special thing they had going there with SCTV. What a talented bunch. I always looked forward to the Schmenges skits. Not only were Candy and Levy hilarious but I actually enjoyed the Polka music.

  • @StratManDan52
    @StratManDan52 Před rokem +14

    I saw them at a polka festival in Toledo, Ohio. They were fabulous. I think their eleven encores were the greatest spectacle I've ever witnessed. They reach deep into our hearts every time they take the stage. Best live performance I've ever seen!!

  • @aaron18xx
    @aaron18xx Před rokem +3

    I remember watching this in the 80s. I rented the video tape, or maybe I recorded it off of HBO or something… But i thought it was hilarious… it still holds up.

  • @user-nq9gz4xf7f
    @user-nq9gz4xf7f Před 3 lety +9

    That looked like a real concert with the Happy Wanderers, i would pay to see them☺ Rick Moranis terrific as the singer too. Those SCTV guys put it all on the line, the greatest.

  • @buyerofsorts
    @buyerofsorts Před 4 lety +27

    "The military needed jars". lol!

    • @jonaspeterson5040
      @jonaspeterson5040 Před 4 lety

      So funny how the war efforts demanded the most arcane things, like jars...shoe leather etc

  • @tedmich
    @tedmich Před 4 lety +38

    One of the Lemon Twins is Mary Margaret O'Hara, Catherine's sister, and has the most ethereal voice. Check her 1988 album Miss America and also the amazingly haunting version of Dark, Dear Heart that she sang at John Candy's funeral.

    • @ryancoulter4797
      @ryancoulter4797 Před 4 lety +4

      tedmich she also sang the theme to the 90s Nickelodeon/YTV show Maniac Mansion along with Jane Siberry

  • @WeihuaVera
    @WeihuaVera Před rokem +3

    I remember the Summer of Love, 1969, at Youngstown State Community College. All the greats were there, Perry Como, Lawrence Welk, Tony Bennett and of course the Smenges. I thought no one could top Lawrence Welk, that is, until the Smenges tood stage late at night, 10:00, as half the crowd nodded off by that time. Stan laid on his back going crazy on the accordion and Yosh spinning in circles while blowing his clarinet. The crowd went crazy. 1500 people must have showed up. Food and drinks were incredible, pastries, 5 kinds of cabbage rolls, tea, coffee and prune juice. I took my ticket stub, framed it and hung it above the mantle. What a show.

    • @fjccommish
      @fjccommish Před 3 dny

      Do you remember how everybody lit their cabbage rolls on fire, held them up - what a spec tacular of light that was. 1500 cabbages burning in tribute to the Shmenge's polka.
      Then they put out all the burning cabbages with the coffee. You couldn't...see nothing for all the smoke.

  • @hbofbyu1
    @hbofbyu1 Před rokem +3

    The picnic catching fire caught be off guard- I fell off the chair laughing.

  • @Unknown17
    @Unknown17 Před rokem +6

    Their version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida absolutely shreds! They taught the number to Iron Butterfly, and the rest, as they say, is history!

  • @carolhart8696
    @carolhart8696 Před rokem +2

    Back to the Road Again. Rick Moranis you are great.
    And of course John and Eugene were perfection.

  • @Unknown17
    @Unknown17 Před rokem +4

    Incredibly well done! Makes me want cabbage rolls and coffee!

  • @MrLookitspam
    @MrLookitspam Před rokem +2

    Visited family in Windsor so I got introduced to great shows. Luckily I lived in Detroit are n had channel 9. That was the cbc.

  • @truckerkevthepaidtourist
    @truckerkevthepaidtourist Před 4 lety +10

    Rick moranis was really great too here

  • @markopolo244
    @markopolo244 Před 4 lety +9

    From the little bit of Leutonian in us all, thank you Stan and Yosh!

  • @Psilocybin77
    @Psilocybin77 Před 3 lety +23

    This is absolutely brilliant! The story quality, production, music are all theatrical level imho and this was made for a skit tv show. The ladies performance at 36:34 is mesmerizing!!!! Wow! This was a nostalgia trip down memory lane for me. SCTV was filmed at ITV studios for a period in Edmonton where I live. I grew up with SCTV and had it filmed in my backyard. It has been incredibly special to me. John Candy felt like a friend to me, and I miss him dearly. Thank you so much for sharing this piece of history and art.

  • @dartdom
    @dartdom Před rokem +2

    As a young musician in the early eighties, I was in a band called - The Last Band On Earth.
    Whimsically, we would have 'Shmenge Nights', every now and again, a special Shmenge rehearsal night apart from our binder of original LBOE tunes. Before long, it was every other rehearsal night that we became Shmenges (we each had a special Shmenge hat, and everything), and before we knew it, - that's right - we had become a Scmenge cover band!
    I don't mind telling you, it took over our lives.
    Dr. Dave, 'The Love Shmenge', is still, to this day, in therapy, as he struggles to re-discover his own true identity. Even myself, 'Riff-Shmenge', struggle some days to let the past go. Sure, I'm still proud to put on the Shmenge hat on occasion, but, at least, the sparkly Shmenge lederhosen will remain in the attic! Sometimes, it haunts my dreams, but, it will, by God, remain in the attic! For now.
    DR. Dave's Shmenge regalia sadly remains, for now and forever, safely out of his reach.
    The ear wants what the ear wants - and this pair of ears still wants some Shmenge.
    And, occasionally, the soft caress of the Shmenge hat.
    They may have played their last Polka, but their music will never die.

  • @throwingsparks
    @throwingsparks Před 3 lety +7

    Gippy's tuba solo was off the charts!

  • @larrydickman6016
    @larrydickman6016 Před 8 měsíci +2

    When they were doing the radio interview, I realized that John Candy sounded like Mr. Tudball with Tim Conway

  • @mhiebendaal3836
    @mhiebendaal3836 Před měsícem +1

    TV was real back then with laughs and all.
    I'm miss SCTV.

  • @MrToddKa
    @MrToddKa Před 4 lety +28

    Ahahaha! Just way, way too much, on so many levels! Always loved SCTV and its derivatives. Such talented folks, light years ahead of SNL.

  • @williamsweeney6499
    @williamsweeney6499 Před 4 lety +8

    This is a work of art.

  • @Ricardodelamuerte
    @Ricardodelamuerte Před 4 lety +6

    The tuba solo killed me 😂😂😂

  • @steelers6titles
    @steelers6titles Před 4 lety +17

    The Lemon Twins! There are three of them LOL

    • @davideck2331
      @davideck2331 Před 4 lety +2

      Nice catch! missed that one.

    • @johngeesey2424
      @johngeesey2424 Před 4 lety +1

      The O'hara sisters and Robin Duke were great. I forget about them the first time i saw this, like 20+ yrs ago.

    • @carlsaganlives4141
      @carlsaganlives4141 Před 4 lety +3

      Shades of the Monroe brothers, Green Acres.(one was a girl)

    • @fjccommish
      @fjccommish Před 3 dny

      Given they're Leutonian, how many would there be?

  • @Dr.Quarex
    @Dr.Quarex Před 3 lety +7

    It made a lot of sense to occasionally hear Fred Armisen citing SCTV as a huge influence on Portlandia. This was probably the only other comedy show as concerned with creating a realistic world for the comedy to take place in as the comedy itself. Verisimilitude indeed.

  • @claytonchaney9171
    @claytonchaney9171 Před 3 lety +5

    I have never seen the sideburn-mustache collaboration thing before

  • @Viper1000100
    @Viper1000100 Před 4 lety +6

    I remember renting this film on VHS a long time ago.

  • @tahustvedt
    @tahustvedt Před měsícem

    I remember my first Schmenges concert. My life would never be the same.

  • @mrmaq007
    @mrmaq007 Před 4 lety +4

    Why am I watching this and actually having a good laugh about it?

  • @alandrobnak
    @alandrobnak Před 4 lety +12

    Still love it after all these years.

  • @EinsteinSurfer
    @EinsteinSurfer Před rokem +2

    OMG the tuba solo riff!! 😂

  • @jillmeredith2012
    @jillmeredith2012 Před 3 lety +3

    How have I not only never seen this, but had no idea it existed?

  • @ginaf2103
    @ginaf2103 Před 4 lety +10

    🤣 l love John Candy forever.

    • @tarnsand440
      @tarnsand440 Před 3 lety +2

      John was exceptional man. He'll be missed for generations by his fans for sure.

  • @patrickwheeler7540
    @patrickwheeler7540 Před rokem +3

    love the tuba solo at 31:10 (devil horns, and lighters ignite!!!)

  • @Mr22thou
    @Mr22thou Před 5 lety +11

    Anyone remember The Polka Parade TV show? KTLA in L.A. broadcast it for decades, starting in '55. I was a kid & I don't remember watching much, but on occasion. KTLA, Channel 5, also produced a number of other local shows such as Pro Wrestling from the Olympic Auditorium, a roller derby show & The Spade Cooley Show. They also showed thousands of classic movies. And don't get me started on the children's shows. Lots of good memories.

    • @thomasmagee9576
      @thomasmagee9576 Před 3 lety

      Mr22thou I remember all of those programs,because my grandmother lived with us when I was a child in Lost Angeles.She never missed a broadcast of Polka Parade,and rooted for our home team,The Thunderbirds,on Roller Derby every week.And wrestling,coming from the Olympic
      Auditorium?She never missed a match,especially when it was women that were wrestling!Nothing was faked in that era; these big,fat,tough dames would literally pull their opponent's hair right out of their scalp as they just knocked the livin' daylights outta one another! That was really
      the shit in the 1950's!Only seven television stations in L.A. At that time.You comment also reminded me of seeing live music for the very first time when Spade Cooley played at a county fair.His band was Western Swing style music.Spade later went to prison for torturing his wife to death in the presence of their little daughter when he was loaded on reds!

  • @sulladrum
    @sulladrum Před 4 lety +3

    The shave and a haircut endings the tuba solo where they walk of stage...these guys did their musical homework, which is great! It makes it that much better

  • @johnsilvester8521
    @johnsilvester8521 Před 5 lety +10

    Just brilliant. What a cast and premise.

  • @gpk9993
    @gpk9993 Před 4 lety +9

    priceless....thank you.....

  • @tphvictims5101
    @tphvictims5101 Před 5 lety +25

    I’m 65 years old. SCTV 👍🏻

  • @waynehackney5812
    @waynehackney5812 Před 3 lety +4

    I have never seen this before. I've been a fan of SCTV for a long time, never saw this before. Loved these characters of Eugene Levy and John Candy. Thank you for sharing this, it made me laugh ,appreciated.

  • @rameybutler-hm7nx
    @rameybutler-hm7nx Před měsícem +1

    This was scctv's most brilliant moment.🎉🎉🎉

  • @Kreln1221
    @Kreln1221 Před 4 lety +4

    *A forerunner of A Mighty Wind!*

  • @tbecker403
    @tbecker403 Před 7 měsíci +1

    “The military needed jars.”
    Holy shit, that was funny.

  • @MyNameIsChristBringsASword

    May you be the lucky one to find the raisin in the surprise ball.

  • @Bill-jc1fy
    @Bill-jc1fy Před 4 lety +12

    They were the Beatles of Leutonia

  • @MannydeDelhi
    @MannydeDelhi Před 4 lety +9

    Great comedy. RIP John Candy...