SCTV, 1/20/79 - "SAMMY MAUDLIN PLUGS BITTMAN'S "ON THE WATERFRONT - AGAIN!! - 2/3

[BoxMcCary]

Jesus .... Lola Heather ton --"I wanna bear your children! Ahhh Hahahaha ..." GENIUS!

[kingsfan1001]

These shows were so funny!

[Paulmancieri67]

"I'll take it out on their skullllllllllssss!!!!!!!!!!!!" Surely one of the greatest remakes never made. A classic.

[happyronnie123]

Best line at the end "Bobby Bitman I wanna bear your ....."  (from Dad)

[kimmy1984]

William B doesn't seem too impressed with Bobby Bittman.....how are ya! 

[juliano66]

SCTV at it's best.

[bluechao]

Melonville's answer to the Rat Pack.

[lancasterII]

Whoa VA VA VOOOOOMMMM!!!

[myrabradwell40]

Pure brilliance...

[andmaketherain]

Now that was funny as fuck.

[armenianeric]

Eugene Levy>God.

[DetroitLives313]

You don't love this, then something is wrong with you! LOL! They kept me laughing from the late 70's to about the mid 80's!!!!

[totalfugazi]

She has a great laugh

[logancody05]

If you notice, right after Bobby is shocked by the sight of Charlie hanging on the hook, he steps backwards and slips on a sheet of newspaper on the floor. He nearly went down.

[logancody05]

You've got to be really good to be so bad.

[tedcantu1]

Ya think Brando is rolling around in his grave? LOL

[hfelton]

Every time a show-biz type says ''I want to give back,'' I think of Levy's Bittman.

[panhead58ful]

Stummbled upon SCTV many years ago, late night on PBS and quickly became a fan. Every cast member is brilliant, has to be some of the funniest comedy I've ever seen.

[hfelton]

I agree with the brilliance of the SCTV cast, but I think a funnier premise would have had a clip shown from their remake with Bobby and his brother Skip recreating the Brando-Steiger ''contender'' scene, after which Sammy Maudlin would be at his fawning, mawkish best telling Bobby he was much better than Brando. Levy and Flaherty would have gone to town with it.

[spaceyrules]

they'll kill youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuu

[carmsfavtoo]

Bobby Bittman, a legend in his own mind. Lol. Thanks Franny.

[chalomirof63]

@carmsfavtoo  Isn't he though!! Levy can play just about anything.......don't get me started on how brilliant he is.

[loyaldude10]

@chalomirof63 --Levy is brilliant. The most versatile actor of these guys---and thats a pretty competitive group

[stevenuenosmith]

This is comedy briliance.

[HankTh3Dwarf]

I have the SCTV volumes on DVD, but I'd still pay for an entire DVD volume of just the Maudlin shows and any Bittman appearances.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

@AmericanPowerBase No, the DVD sets are the NBC years. These '70s shows are the best. NBC had a bigger budget. The seat-of-one's-pants productions of these earlier episodes makes for more hilarity.

[simplyscrummy]

I love William B.'s reaction to Sammy...

[loyaldude10]

@simplyscrummy ---that giggle is priceless, as is Bobby's. And Sammy's knee slapping----u can fall out of ur chair watching these guys. even 30 yrs later, and after seeing it dozen times

[sidDkid87]

getting back to ME

[cindyns1]

hard to believe this skit was 31 years ago i am 19 but this is timeless

[agcmpls]

god the hair ...

[MKUltra3]

I always like William B. William's masochistic self-hatred and bitterness.

Sammy's 'good listener' face...

this shit is timeless

[chalomirof63]

@AmericanPowerBase I don't believe I indicated that I wanted to purchase the DVD. Thanks anyway for the unsolicited info, Mr. Teabag!

[simplyscrummy]

@chalomirof63 You rock, Franny! Love, Angie (formerly stripeyroom)

[chalomirof63]

@simplyscrummy Hey Angie: how's it going!? A new name, ay? Cheers, F.

[rdecredico]

Good stuff~! Perhaps only bettered by Johnny LaRue's Polynesiantown.

[chalomirof63]

@rdecredico I could have sworn I saw someone had posted it the other day, but now I can't find it!! LOL.

[rdecredico]

Great stuff. SCTV 90 was good, but the earlier stuff, syndicated before they went onto a major network was even better. The half-hour version, of which there are few tapes, is the real touchstone for this type of skit comedy.

[chalomirof63]

@rdecredico Are you in NYC? I first saw the 30-min. earliest show in 1977 on WOR, (Channel 9), and was hooked immediately. (P.S. - I hope you have a good pair of headphones! LOL. Sorry about the volume).

[rdecredico]

@chalomirof63 I grew up in that area and started watching them in 76 when it would come on late at nights, but it wasn't shown on a regular basis.

[chalomirof63]

@rdecredico Well, you caught them right from the start; I was about a year late. And I believe it was on once a week, about 8 PM or so. WOR is hard-wired into my memory, as it was my intro to SCTV.

[rdecredico]

@chalomirof63 I was in the South Jersey (Sea Isle City) area, and I think we got the feed from a Philadelphia UHF station at that time (Channel 48...now defunct, of course). I hung in to the bitter end, when most of the main cast had left and they were cut back to 45 mins on NBC friday nights.

[chalomirof63]

@rdecredico Well, all I know is that we can all be grateful all these uploads haven't been pulled, as they were about two years ago. Keep watching, as I still have others to post! Cheers.

[rdecredico]

@chalomirof63 I am indeed very grateful and I thank you very much taking the time to do this for us to enjoy.

[aimtrue45]

Love John Candy's reaction when Bitman says, "touch wood"! At 0:48.

[jago76]

Bittman is one of the great unrecognized talents. A great humorist, he was also a dynamite dramatic actor.

[chalomirof63]

@jago76  .....in all seriousness! LOL.

[vmvlkc]

I totally forgot how Lola Heatherton would say "I wanna bear your children!" Ahhhh memories from a simpler time!

[chalomirof63]

@vmvlkc  That was her trademark - how could you forget!! LOL. And I totally agree: "...a simpler time."

[kevindlinc]

My favorite character was Angus Crock . Dave Thomas was dryer than a popcorn fart, the best!! I love his Bob Hope.

[franchise1998]

"HOw are ya?"  These bits are awesome - thanks for posting -great memories . . .

"On the Waterfront - AGAIN" . . .

[emsportfishing]

I wanna bear your children,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,hhh­aaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaa

[logancody05]

Brilliant!  Brilliant! Brilliant!

[ar4216]

How are ya!

[candy1710]

That's some heavy acting Bobo. Love it! Thank you!

[carlos3765]

Might I just say that Bittman's performance was a tour de force!

[Squank63]

I love how into himself Bobby is, down on one knee watching and then extending a self-congratulatory handshake to Sammy before Sammy even offers.

Lola's expression at 4:36 kills me!

[MrBasilGanglia]

I am very thankful to you for posting these. They were fantastic. Thank you, thank you.

[chalomirof63]

You're very very welcome!

[mpmajer]

This is side splitting knee slapping kickass memorys."Sammy can I say something"LOL

[Tatomatic]

Classic Maudlin, Thanks so much for posting, simply great!

[Tatupuforyou]

How are yaaaa!...Classic!

[rachel112263]

Classic Bobby Bittman and Lola Heatherton. I love the way Bobby laughs. Sammy and William B, gosh I miss them. Do you have the William B William show? I'd love to see that one. And, how about the Sammy Maudlin show with the whole gang watching Lorna Minella sing, and she inhales a fly!!!!

[chalomirof63]

They're posted Rachel.

[rachel112263]

Thank you, thank you. I bow down to your greatness!!!

[BipolarPics]

John Candy's face at :48

[mohairsammy]

You are a genius for posting this, even! The Sammy Maudlin Show cannot be topped, and the Bobby Bittman, er, bits are priceless. "I've always been interested in drah-ma and heavy acting ..."

[chalomirof63]

No Sam: Eugene Levy is a genius. I just posted it!! LOL. Isn't it just hilarious. And Candy's reaction (Wm. B) is chilling when Sammy 'knocks wood'.

[jefffixe]

@chalomirof63 i can only join in the chorus. thanks a million for posting these sctv skits. i hadnt seen these bits in 25 yrs.. when i was in college in the early 80s my friends and i reserved friday nights for the 90 minute show coming out of canada.we knew we better enjoy it then. it was just too good to last.

[chalomirof63]

@jefffixe  You're very welcome!

[jefffixe]

@chalomirof63

any chance you remember the skit where bittman gets tired of showbiz and moves out to the countryside. he is interviewed and at first claims he likes the quiet life, but by the end of the interview complains " cable dont come out this far bub". also, hes tired of all the wild animal noises and wants to "pave the whole damn place over". classic.

[laosuwan]

I want to bear your children... I thonk that the joke here is that Joey was lesbian

[Fania54]

:52 John Candy drops the "F Bomb".

[tjamesleger]

It's like a buffet every time with SCTV! So many references, so many characters, so many laughs! Bravo!

[rowdymax1]

it's Stifler's dad!

[alloowishus]

this was the prototype for Larry Sanders. way ahead of its time.

[TJamesBell]

SNL can suck it. This is the funniest sh*t ever on television. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for the great post.

[cesar1963able]

@TJamesBell I agree! And SCTV had sh**t for budget, and no advertisement for the next show. There was a cult following. I'm glad youtube has brought this back up.

[myrabradwell40]

PURE BRILLIANCE...

[usualsuspect101]

watch out lola heatherton want's to bare your children haaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaa....lmao classic stuff thanx for the uploads chalomirof63

[sadhuable]

Lola Heatherton, what a fruitcake.

[DrFlippin]

sammy maudlin should have done a skit as Jimmy Page, dressed exactly like he is here.

[logancody07]

SNL cannot hold a candle to SCTV

[loyaldude10]

@logancody07 ---I have always said that. They were much more creative. But SNL was live, so SCTV had advantage in comparison

[guinnesstrail]

Genius.

[TheTravelingThumb]

"HOW ARE YA!"

Love these guys when they do Sammy, William B, and funnyman Bobby Bittman. Thanks for posting this gem!

[chalomirof63]

You're very welcome. (Lenny Bruce, ay? Very cool!)

[slap1328]

agreed!