wayne and schuster

[chchucks]

great although the sound kept going from mono to stereo

[LavenderDarwin]

Go my friend, with aid divine, and hit that Pepsi Cola sign!

[lsblatt1]

The most brilliant literate Canadian comedians. RIP Lou and Frank

[Pbsmike]

Classic love it love it love it! Thanks to CKLW I hearls and seen this from Mt Clemens just North of Detroit!

[marius478]

I remember watching this as a kid. I miss those guys.

[VestriDeusEstMortuus]

Lol! It's in iambic pentameter too!

[bullsleafs]

Growing up this would kick of our saturday nights. Our family would watch this and then Hockey night in Canada. I miss being a kid, I miss the 80's.

[JeffZHigs1]

"that ball was fair!"

"That ball was foul!"

"so fair a foul I have not seen!"

[Jourell1]

Heh brilliant stuff. i prefer the longer black and white version, though the last line on this one was 1000 times better in my opinion

[newf360]

I loved this show when I was a kid.

[cheomire]

i remember watching this on cbc when i was a kid. inspiring stuff!

[1meg007]

has anyone  seen, heard of, or able to post the skit from wayne and shuster called "the unholy goalie" ??? it was a classic as wel :)

[MovieMouse]

@1meg007 I've been looing EVERYWHERE for "The Unholy Goalie" as well, that skit was nothing short of AWESOME..... "Who is that masked man?" CLASSIC!!!

[MovieMouse]

@1meg007 I've been looking EVERYWHERE for "The Unholy Goalie" as well, that skit was nothing short of AWESOME..... "Who is that masked man?" CLASSIC!!!

[4Dada]

Remake of the 1958 black and white sketch! Both are classics in their own right.

[Mrblancnoir]

This is simply brilliant, they should do this as a "short" on stage before one of the plays in Stratford

[Mac3622]

How did we go from this type of intelligent comedy to "Trailer Park Boys"?

[sheltv100]

@Mac3622 I have to ask myself that question too. I would rather watch this than Trailer Park Boys.

[jsilence418]

Nice to know some things are just as you remember them . Yep they are as bad as ever!

[Fledrmaus]

Such a classic sketch! It's a pity the laughter lasts so long when Rocky says "Aye, there's the rub" - it covers the following line which I like even better: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends!"

[USRoute66]

This is so well written and executed. No comedy team could do Shakespeare any better than Wayne and Shuster. This really brings back a lot of memories seeing this sketch again.

[wmackview]

Wonderful! The works of Shakespeare have always been a mine of material for comedians but Wayne and Shuster's baseball sketch is the best of all by a long way. Original, imaginative and funny. I think that they are the most underrated comics ever, they deserve to be more widely known. A lot of people thought that they were American because they were regulars on TV there. Great to see this again. Try and catch "The picture of Dorian Wayne".

[1Bornconfused]

They also appeared on the Ed Sullivan show numerous times (I believe it was more than 60), and had the distinction of being on the show the most out of any group of performers that ever came on the Sullivan show. It was because of this that they were offered a chance to have their own show in the States, but they refused, preferring instead to wait for the chance to get picked up in Canada. They were, and with great success.

Classic Canadian icons.

[0000i000]

Sono arrivati anche in Italia. They came (this program) in Italy too.

[TheDoctor394]

My sister and I loved watching this. :)

[Dunner1994]

oh my god, I grew up watching this at my Grandparents house

[HCShannon]

The original Terrence and Philip!

[PieFights]

Does anybody have the Matzo Bowl clip??

[thesteveus]

Who remembers the sketch called "The picture of Dorian Wayne" where Johnny Wayne's character could eat anything he wanted and only his portrait got fat.....

[Jourell1]

As I said , no one knows. not even Dorian

[tstclebill]

lol ya that was a 2 parter

[GESSO217]

Love that sketch. I saw both the black and white and the color versions. I grew up with W&S. Great to see it here

[thesteveus]

They showed this show here in Australia in the early 80's.  I thought it was great!!!

[markojameow]

Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster were Canada's original comedy duo, with careers that stretched back to the 1930s. When the CBC offered them a television series back in 1954, they actually jumped to the chance. By the late 1960s, Wayne and Shuster could be seen time-to-time on TV specials - and they were at their best lampooning Shakespeare and other classic playwrights and novelists. Johnny Wayne died in 1990; Frank Shuster left us twelve years later.

[mightyelroy]

classic comedy. I miss these guys. Nobody has done it better since. SNL stinks compared to this dynamic duo.

[freetobefreddy]

Wrong, SCTV was better than this crap

[tstclebill]

ironically the creator of snl was shusters son in law and shuster gave him the funding to start the show

[frostythesasquatch]

I was sure that there was a line about "Is this a slugger before mine eyes?" Or did I miss it?

[Wittig123]

Yes -- "Is this a slugger that I see before me?" was in the original, which has been posted by "icecoldkatie".

This version has been edited -- but it contains some new and great lines which weren't in the original. (e.g. - "Now is the summer of our discontent.")

[ksyaschuk]

they have a sketch where they turn question time at the house of commons into a musical. gold.

[nitzwalsh86]

I saw and loved it.

[Hugesocks]

There ain't no reason and there ain't no rhyme, it's question time... Anyone have it?

[MacAttackProductions]

I love wayne and schuster, it's comedy where one has to think instead of just someone making bodily noises. I wish they'd get the full version of the brown pumpernickel.... or Kwai me a river

[saskabush2006]

This is a classic. Wayne and Shuster's topical comedy hasn't aged well, but skits like this, despite being a little highbrow, are timeless.