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(1980)

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A Parody Of English Suspense Plays And One Of The Best Of Season 3
Jimmy_the_Gent418 July 2019
This begins with Sunrise Semester and a hilarious Dave Thomas as Angus Crock, a Scottish blues singer who tells us about conversational Scottish. He keeps on reminding everyone he is doing this for free since it's PBS. And gets into an argument with the cameraman and tells him "Away w'you".

Then we see Chick Monk (Tony Rosato) a roadie marriage counselor. He has long hair, a cowboy hat and jeans. It's a very funny sketch as Chick does a sound check and smoke machines while a couple (Robin Duke and Joe Flaherty) try to talk about their marital problems.

Great White North has Bob and Doug talking about a ski trip. Doug puts beer bottles on the skis. There is a crawl about the Canadian Identity Crisis Center.

Next is Rick Moranis doing his excellent impression of Dick Cavett. He really captures his verbose, dry personality. Cavett decides the only guest worthy of appearing is himself so we get 2 Moranis/Cavett impressions for one. Both Cavetts do some name dropping of Woody Allen and Laurence Olivier.

Then we get a very funny parody of the classic film "Gaslight" in which a rich woman (Andrea Martin) is marked for murder by her scheming husband (Flaherty) and low class maid (Duke). They don't do impressions of the original actors but just do funny generic over the top English accents. They attempt to kill the wife and in the funniest scene they fling her across the room a couple of times while dancing. This was made even funnier by the use of an obvious dummy in the scene. But she refuses to die!

The last scene is Sermonette with Father Raoul Wilson (Eugene Levy) a sleazy fake priest. He talks about sex and the church and gets into trouble when he mentions porno magazines and looking a women of all ages as the credits roll.
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