Candy Slice and the Slicers

Candy Slice and the Slicers, from Gilda Live, 1979. Gilda Radner, Paul Shaffer, Nils Nichols, Bob Christianson.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Gilda
• Radner
• Candy
• Slice
• Slicers
• Paul
• Shaffer

[ExposRIP]

Gilda's right up there with Lucy and Carol, as one of the funniest women in television history. I wouldn't want to rank them.

[finylvinyl66]

@SavannahNight Candy was clearly based on Patti Smith. Although it was a

memorable performance, it wasn't that good a satire on Smith, who wasn't

the substance abuser pictured here. More a takeoff on the punk thing happening

at the time.

[Zeppo11767]

The tone GE Smith has at the intro of this tune is killer.

[latice]

@finylvinyl66 Agree! It's more like Lou Reed

[trishdadish82]

Joan Jett was also very poular in The Runaways which was in the mid to late 70's

[mark4tk]

ge smith rules

[richardmcboingboing]

@SavannahNight a lot of times when a character is created, be it SNL, second city or the muppets, it's a composite of different people

[tits569]

I remember this skit....awesome. She died well before her time, RIP

[4cb2f]

@starqz  Amy Winehouse's last "concert" in Belgrade 2011 reminded me of this.

[BRUC2016]

@starqz You had it SO right.

[Bhaktiyogin]

So awesome. Here's a "comedy" musical performance that's pretty much better than anything being produced today.

[thereagauze]

this was during the time period when Wild Turkey was carbonated apparently.