“Every day, on every page, he has been our North Star,” Gerber said in a statement. “From his days at National Lampoon, Brian was ‘every comedy writer’s favorite comedy writer,’ crafting an ...

“It’s with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear Brian McConnachie. In addition to being the Founder of The American Bystander back in 1981, Brian was essential in its relaunch in 2015.

After a successful Canadian run as Second City TV on Global and SCTV on CBC, the cast packed up and moved to America (theoretically) when NBC offered them a timeslot under the title SCTV Network 90.

The death of actor and comedian Joe Flaherty has brought back a flood of memories, especially from Second City Television (SCTV), the Canadian sketch comedy show that ran between 1976 and 1984. Joe ...

A June 1981 episode of NBC’s SCTV Network 90 begins with a straight-to-the-camera editorial by Rick Moranis, assuming the role of cranky veteran newsman David Brinkley. Clad in a three-piece suit, ...

There is a special delight in loving a thing you are sure no one else loves, or could love -- the thing that is strange and scruffy beyond description. (Call it the Velveteen Rabbit effect.) Such was ...

Screw SNL; the real outlaw genius pioneers of late-night TV satire were on SCTV, the imaginary network conjured up in the ’70s and ’80s by John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, ...

Brian McConnachie, who was one of the chief contributors to the groundbreaking National Lampoon magazine, a writer on Saturday Night Live and SCTV and also an actor in seven Woody Allen films has died ...