Category: SCTV

Dan’s Note: I didn’t write this, but I agree with every word!!
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All the hits, as good as we remember
It was 1974 all over again, and thankfully so, as SCTV veterans did their thing
Richard Ouzounian – Toronto Star Theatre Critic
Anybody searching for the Fountain of Youth is advised to pay a visit to the Second City on Mercer St. where The Benefit of Laughter opened last night for a two-performance run.
The five cast members from the iconic series SCTV ñ Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara and Martin Short ñ hadn’t appeared together on a stage in 24 years, but you’d never know it.
They showed us without a doubt that they had the talent, the panache and that inexpressible larger-than-life quality called stardom that still makes them unique.
Nothing could make that clearer than a moment in the first sketch they performed, where O’Hara played a teacher summoning the worst parents of her class. All was going fine and then suddenly, a door flung open and there was Martin, a.k.a. Edith Prickley, in her leopard-clothed glory.
It was like someone had pulled an electric switch on the stage. Everything seemed brighter, funnier and the audience cheered their approval. And the first time Martin uncorked that incredible cackle of hers, all of us felt like it was 1974 all over again … and boy, were we glad it was.
Miracles like that were in plentiful supply last night. Let Levy’s clueless Earl Camembert do his slow burn through a news report where stolid partner Floyd Robertson (Flaherty, the king of deadpan) got all the good headlines and you practically fell apart with glee waiting for the final eruption that you knew would come.
When Martin’s twitching, preening Ed Grimley triumphed over a superior candidate at a job interview and went into a dance that looked like a cobra squirming through a sea of Vaseline, everything seemed right with the world.
By the time Act II began with an episode of the Sammy Maudlin Show, bliss reigned supreme.
Flaherty sleazed his way through the talk show host with vintage grease, Levy’s Bobby Bittman hit new heights of self-promotional hilarity and then the Earth stopped on its axis as O’Hara’s bleached blond and white-spangled Lola Heatherton slunk into view, offering to bear all our children.
The medley of Canadian songs she did with Levy hit new heights of hilarity, ending with his ad-libbed “I don’t know those kookie, crazy Canadian clouds after all.”
The hits kept on a comin’, as they used to say, with Short stopping the show as the loathsome Jackie Rogers Jr. and a gossipy hairdresser who uncorks lines like, “John McCain is so old, the only time he doesn’t have to pee is when he pees.”
There was also first-rate work from the inventive Colin Mochrie and the daffy, delectable Women Fully Clothed, but this evening belonged to the gang from SCTV.
They subtly saluted their absent friend John Candy by saying how much they missed his William B. Williams character during the Maudlin show but otherwise, it was laughter all the way.
Were they great in the past? Undoubtedly. Were they great last night? Absolutely. Will they ever be that great in person again? Only God and Guy Caballero know for sure.

SCTVers reunite for charity event
TORONTO – For some, it was Catherine O’Hara’s unhinged Lola Heatherton, for others it was Eugene Levy’s impersonation of a near-comatose Perry Como, for still others it was Tex and Edna Boyle and their bizarre organ emporium.
Almost every Canadian has a favourite SCTV character, moment or routine – and so, too, do a litany of comics who have been paying tribute to the zany and groundbreaking troupe as some of its most famous members prepare to reunite next week in Toronto for two shows.
“It’s tremendously uplifting and one of the greatest rewards, to hear your peers, and these really great comic minds, saying they look up to us,” the U.S.-born Joe Flaherty, 66, said Wednesday from his home in Toronto, where he’s lived since the early 1970s.
“It’s the best you can do, to get those kinds of accolades.”
Dave Foley, currently touring North America with the Kids in the Hall as they enjoy a reunion of their own, says he was an insanely devoted fan of “SCTV” as soon as it started airing on the CBC in 1976.
“When I was a kid we lived in Creemore, which is about an hour out of Toronto, and we only got two TV channels clearly,” Foley recalled in a recent interview from Boston.
“We had this old antenna lying on the floor in our attic and I’d have to go up for about two hours of fiddling with this antenna so that we could watch ‘SCTV’ each week. I would be up there … shouting out the window to my brother downstairs: ‘Can you see anything?’ We had to do that every single week because we loved that show so much right from its first airing.”
SCTV, in fact, had a huge impact on “The Kids in the Hall” as Foley and the four other Kids decided where to take their TV show a decade later.
“They were a big part of why we don’t do any parodies – because of how much we loved ‘SCTV,”‘ he said. “‘SCTV’ just did it way better than we could ever do it.”
Foley counts the SCTV spoof “The Grapes of Mud,” Levy’s imitation of an Alex Trebek type on “Half Wits” and any time the late John Candy showed up as the smarmy Johnny LaRue as among his favourite SCTV moments, but was quick to add that it was almost impossible to name favourites.
British-born comic Tracey Ullman recalls moving to the U.S. more than 20 years ago and immediately becoming enthralled with “SCTV” and the hysterical goings-on at the local TV station in the fictional town of Melonville.
“It was so cutting edge compared to anything else they were doing in the U.S. at the time – it was brilliant and really, it still is brilliant,” Ullman said recently in a telephone interview from Los Angeles.
As a female comic, Ullman said she was particularly blown away by Catherine O’Hara – especially her portrayal of a kooky D-list entertainer who frequently appeared on the Sammy Maudlin talk show and shrieked: “I love you! I want to bear your children!”
“The impersonation of Lola Heatherton was just fabulous because Catherine O’Hara is such a great actress. It was more than an impersonation, it wasn’t a surface impersonation – there was a lot of stuff underneath that was brilliant. She’s the absolute funniest.”
Brent Butt, star and creator of CTV’s hit comedy “Corner Gas,” said he still watches SCTV whenever he can and marvels at how sharp and funny the humour remains.
“It holds up better than a lot of shows and is still every bit as funny as it was then,” Butt said from Vancouver.
“But the two who really stand out for me are Johnny LaRue and Bobby Bittman. Bobby Bittman because I always wanted to be a standup, and here was this guy who was this cartoonish stereotype of all the bad standups in the world – this guy was the guy not to be, but you were always pulling for him,” he said. “Johnny LaRue was so pathetic, but so funny.”
The jovial Flaherty, whose memorable “SCTV” characters included poker-faced news anchor Floyd Robertson and an alcoholic Hugh Beaumont in a “Leave It to Beaver” parody, said he’s not nervous about taking to the stage next Monday and Tuesday nights in Toronto.
The shows – featuring him, O’Hara, Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short and Harold Ramis – are aimed at raising funds for veteran artistic and support personnel from “SCTV” and the Second City theatre troupe who are facing health or financial hardships.
No media have been accredited to cover the shows, and they were conceived simply as low-key affairs meant to raise charity money.
“We’re only going to rehearse on Sunday,” Flaherty said.
“We’re doing some SCTV characters, we’re doing some stage stuff that we all did on stage at Second City, and we’re doing some improvisation. It should be interesting, that’s for sure, but the best thing is that it’s put us all in touch again.”
Flaherty says age, however, has slowed everyone down slightly.
“Yes, we’re all together and we’re a lot older,” he said with a laugh. “The more I look at it, the more I see why comedy works so well for the young.”

SCTV reuniting for a good cause
Citizens of Melonville, SCTV is back!
Or at least, most of the players who made the late 1970s, early ’80s TV comedy series so memorable, with characters like Guy Caballero, Bobby Bittman, Edith Prickley, Lola Hetherington, Ed Grimley, and Bob and Doug McKenzie.
The Star has learned that Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short and Dave Thomas will reunite as performers for the first time in 24 years on May 5 at The Second City’s Toronto home on Mercer St.
Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis are trying to extricate themselves from previous engagements so they can join their colleagues.
“I only know one thing: it’s going to be fun,” said Short, in an interview from his home in Los Angeles.
He recalls his time on SCTV as “a miracle. It was the first time that I was tapping into the kind of work I would do for the rest of my career.”
SCTV first went on the air as a half-hour show on Global TV in 1976 and wound up as a 90-minute program on CBC and NBC. Its final original year was on pay TV service Superchannel in 1984.
Short joined the series in 1982, near the end of its run, and says he found it “a daunting experience. I was being asked to join a show that was an Emmy-winning hit, the hippest thing in comedy.
“I really developed Ed Grimley there,” he laughed, referring to the twitchy, cowlicked character that also appeared on Saturday Night Live and in his own animated series. “Up until then, Grimley had only been a character who would appear naked coming out of the shower to my wife.”
The appearance in May is a fundraiser for The Alumni Fund, which raises money to help veteran artistic and support personnel from SCTV and The Second City comedy troupe who are facing health or financial hardship.
Also appearing that night are Colin Mochrie and the comedy group Women Fully Clothed (Kathryn Greenwood, Robin Duke, Debra McGrath, Jayne Eastwood and Teresa Pavlinek).
“I am thrilled to have this wonderful collection of Second City alums come home and support their colleagues and friends who may be experiencing some difficulties in their lives,” said executive producer Andrew Alexander.

Updated Epcot Center film has Martin Short as voice of Canada
Disney is finally updating the film that presents the face of Canada at Epcot Center in Florida, and has chosen Hamilton-born comedian Martin Short to tell the story.
The SCTV and Saturday Night Live star will play a cowboy, a member of Cirque du Soleil and several other characters in the film that gives visitors an introduction to Canada.
It will be shown in the Canada Pavilion at Epcot, one of Walt Disney World’s theme parks, beginning next month.
Canadians have been complaining for years about O Canada.
The footage of Canadian scenes and cities was shot in 1979 and has been criticized for its portrayal of Canadians as lumberjacks, fishermen and Mounties.
“I’d say that in the last 10 years Ö we got a lot of complaints from Canadians who said, ‘I don’t think this is reflective of Canada. We’re not just about geese. We’re not about flannel jackets and we’re definitely not about just great, wide open landscapes,”‘said Gisele Danis with the Canadian Tourism Commission.
“The letters just poured in.”
The CTC has been lobbying for years to have the Disney-made film updated.
The agency that promotes Canadian tourism has played a role in creating the new version, and agreed with Disney on the choice of Short as narrator.
Film emphasizes Canadian star power
The entertainer said the new film will definitely give people a more realistic view of Canada, if a mildly humourous one.
“It’s more of a comedic look Ö it’s, shall we say, a lighthearted examination of Canada,” he said. “It’s little vignettes and things, and I narrate it as well.”
In the last 25 years, Canadian comedians have emerged with a distinct sensibility in the minds of Americans, Short said.
The film makes the most of that reputation and points out other big stars with Canadian roots.
“There is a montage of all the kinds of, I guess, celebrity lights that have come from Canada ’cause it is an unusually disproportionate number when you think of it,” Short said.
The film also features new music and vocals by last year’s Canadian Idol, Eva Avula.

Delays continue for former SNL comedian jailed 2 years awaiting trial
Former SCTV and Saturday Night Live comedian Tony Rosato must wait until June to find out if he will get a bail hearing this summer after spending two years in jail without trial.
On Friday, lawyers involved in Rosato’s case met in court in Kingston, Ont., but were unable to agree on moving up court proceedings to discuss his bail and the exceptional delay in his trial for charges of harassing his wife.
They will be discussing the issue again in June, said Rosato’s lawyer Daniel Brodsky.
If Rosato is granted bail, he will be released to a psychiatric hospital, Brodsky said.
Rosato, 53, has been in jail since May 2005.
He was charged with harassment after he complained to police that his wife Leah Rosato and their daughter had gone missing and had been replaced by imposters.
On Friday, the Superior Court of Justice offered to move Rosato’s hearing on bail and court delays from November to July, but the lawyer for Rosato’s wife said she was not available.
“Tony is shocked that he may have to wait until November to accommodate the complainant’s lawyer,” Brodsky said in an e-mail. “I’m appalled.”
Lawyer wants charges dropped
Brodsky is arguing that charges against Rosato should be dropped because of an unreasonable delay in his trial.
That delay has prompted Karl Pruner, the president of Rosato’s union, to speak to Ontario’s attorney general about the case.
“From what I can find out about the case, nobody’s done anything wrong. There’s no malice here,” said Pruner, head of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists. “It’s just this guy has wedged himself into a crack and we need to get him out.”
A spokesperson for Ontario’s Attorney General’s Office told CBC that the Crown has taken steps to have Rosato’s case moved forward “judiciously and expeditiously” and to have Rosato held in a psychiatric facility instead of jail.
Rosato was born in Italy, grew up in Ottawa, and rose to fame after he joined Second City in Toronto. He was on SCTV and Saturday Night Live in the ’80s and went on to star on other TV shows and in movies through the ’90s.

CBC to honour McKenzie brothers
TORONTO (CP) – The Trailer Park Boys may be Canada’s latest low-rent darlings, but beer-swilling hosers Bob and Doug McKenzie were blazing a proud trail of loserdom when Ricky, Julian and Bubbles were mere children.
And so CBC-TV is celebrating the SCTV favourites, portrayed by comics Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, this Sunday with its so-called “Two-Four Anniversary Special.”
The title is an homage to three beloved Canadianisms: the country’s May 24th holiday weekend, the beverage of choice for Bob and Doug – an ice-cold case of 24 beer, colloquially known as a 2-4 – and the 24th anniversary of the Bob and Doug movie, “Strange Brew,” a film that became something of a campus cult classic in the U.S. upon its release in 1983.
“Someone was saying to me recently that if you did a montage of all of Canada’s best-known symbols, there wouldn’t be too many of them, but Bob and Doug would definitely be on there,” Thomas said Thursday on the line from Los Angeles, where he’s lived for more than 20 years.
“We are certainly icons.”
The special – airing on Thomas’s 58th birthday – features a long list of personalities paying tribute to Bob and Doug, including Canadians Martin Short, Tom Green, Paul Shaffer and Dave Foley. But there are also some longtime American fans like “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening and actor Ben Stiller, who remembers lining up with his mother for hours at a New York City record store as a child to get Bob and Doug’s autographs.
One of the funniest parts of the special, Thomas says, is former prime minister Paul Martin’s deadpan appearance as he pleads for Canadians to reject the Bob and Doug stereotype once and for all. At one point, Martin sadly recalls: “I’ll never forget the four-year-old girl in Buenos Aires who looked up at me with her pretty eyes and asked, ‘Where’s your beer, you knob?”‘
“He absolutely nailed it,” Thomas says incredulously. “I couldn’t believe how hilarious he was.”
In honour of the 24th anniversary, even beer-makers are getting in on the party – Red Cap Ale has created a limited-edition range of six Bob and Doug collectible stubbies available in Ontario all summer long.
In every 12 pack of Red Cap stubbies, beer fans in Ontario will find one of the six anniversary edition clear stubby bottles, showcasing some of Bob and Doug’s finer moments.
Thomas loves Bob and Doug – characters created as a sort of raised finger to the CRTC’s strict Canadian content regulations when SCTV was one the country’s biggest television hits – but he admits to having frequently thrown out the Bob and Doug costume of toques and parkas in the past. He figured he and Moranis, one of his closest pals, had closed the door on the characters for good.
“And every time, here we go again – I have to get another parka and another toque,” he says with a laugh. When told he should hang on to the costume this time because they’ll likely be expected to resurrect Bob and Doug again on the 50th anniversary, Thomas is rueful.
“If I’m still alive, that is.”
He may be approaching 60, but Thomas doesn’t appear to be slowing down. He makes the odd television appearance, playing Charlize Theron’s uncle on an “Arrested Development” episode (“Who would turn that down?” he asked). And he’s currently working on a movie about Canadian bandleader Guy Lombardo, and awaiting word on two television pilots – one a sitcom set in a hospital.
Thomas admits he misses Canada, even though he sold his cottage on Ontario’s Lake Simcoe years ago.
“My wife caught me hurling rocks at our motorboat in anger and frustration and she said: ‘You know, maybe you’re just not a cottage person,”‘ he recalls. “And she was right. It was a hassle maintaining that cottage.”
But he marvels every time he returns to Toronto, saying he’s astonished at how bustling and vibrant the city is now compared to how it was in the 1970s and ’80s, when he was launching his comedy career.
“I sometimes wonder if Toronto was the city it is now when I was starting out, if I would have even needed to leave it,” he said. “It is really such a great, vital place now.”

Hoser mania is back, eh?
HOLLYWOOD — Coo Roo Coo Coo Coo Coo Coo Coo!
It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard the immortal call of the “Great White North,” but that’s about to change as Bob and Doug McKenzie get ready to celebrate a significant anniversary.
True, their movie, Strange Brew was released in 1983, but why wait until 2008 to commemorate 25 years when there’s a perfectly good two-four sitting in front of them right now.
Refusing to let that, uh, Golden opportunity slip away, Toronto-based producer Jane Welowszky has been in Hollywood doing interviews for Bob & Doug’s Two-Four Anniversary, a one-hour special slated to air on CBC this summer in which Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas reunite to play the beloved McKenzie Brothers for what could be the very last time.
Among those Welowszky has filmed so far, sharing their fondest Bob & Doug memories, are Ben Stiller, Martin Short, Jason Priestly, Paul Dooley (who was one of the Strange Brew cast members), The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Dave Foley, Tom Green, Mad TV’s Will Sasso and hockey great Mark Napier.
“Ben Stiller had lined up with his mother, Anne Meara, when he was just a kid, waiting three hours to get their autograph at Sam Goody Records at Rockefeller Center,” says Welowszky, who heads up a production company called Me Jane Films.
“Everyone has a story or an anecdote since the McKenzies really touched a lot of lives.”
She’s hoping one of those willing to share will also include Demi Moore who had actually auditioned for Strange Brew but ended up losing the role (of Pam Elsinore) to Canadian actress Lynne Griffin.
In the course of her travels, Welowszky is also looking to snag some of the politicians who at the time felt that Bob and Doug were harmful to the Canadian image.
While a firm date has yet to be locked in, Welowszky anticipates CBC will agree to May 19, the kick-off to the Victoria Day long weekend, which also happens to be the unofficial start of two-four season.
A special edition Strange Brew DVD is slated to come out in the fall, which will also likely contain some of the recently shot footage.
As aficionados will tell you, “Great White North” took off back in 1980 when SCTV was mandated by the government to fill two minutes of each program with what would be considered strictly Canadian content.
The ensuing Hosermania had become a bit of a mixed blessing for Moranis and Thomas over the years, but absence has clearly made their hearts grow fonder. Their toques have been recreated for the occasion as has the memorable GWN set.
“When Bob and Doug left SCTV the original set was basically thrown out,” says Welowszky.
“We found a guy who used to work for the show and he rescued it from the dumpster and now it’s in his basement in Toronto so he and his buddies can sit around drinking beer in front of the “Great White North” set.”
Among plans to promote the upcoming special is an on-line Canadian Hoser competition (“like Canadian Idol but really different, eh?”).
Beyond the big Two-Four, development continues on the long-in-gestation The Animated Adventures of Bob & Doug, a half-hour series that would air in the Simpsons/King of the Hill time slot.
“As Dave says, he looks better animated now,” says Welowszky.
“He’ll have a long shelf-life that way.”
Beauty, eh?

Calling All Hosers
From the producers of the upcoming McKenzie Brothers documentary:
Me Jane Films is currently producing a special one hour documentary for CBC called “The Two-Four Anniversary of Strange Brew.” That’s right, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas will be reuniting as Bob and Doug McKenzie for what may be their last show from the Great White North…and we want to hear from you!
We are looking for the best, most entertaining home video footage, photographs, collections of memorabilia, and Hoser stories. Do you have an entire room in your house dedicated to Bob and Doug? Do you or someone you know consider toques and parkas as wardrobe essentials? Have you ever tried to stuff a mouse inside a beer bottle…and videotaped it? Are your children named Bob and Doug…and they are both daughters?
You get the picture. We want to see how those original Hosers – and their comedy classic, “Strange Brew” – have impacted your lives.
E-mail us at info@mejanefilms.com and let us know if there’s anything you’d like us to consider using in the show. Be sure to include your phone number because when we receive your submission we may need to contact you for more information.
Depending on the nature of your submission, we may request that an item be sent to us, such as a DVD or photo – or even better, you may be asked to participate in an on-camera interview! Payment may be available for some types of footage.
So put down that bottle of beer and jelly doughnut because here’s your chance to show the rest of Canada (maybe even the world, eh!) just how much these two unforgettable Canadian Hosers mean to you.
Looking forward to hearing from you, eh!

Dave Thomas still has his eh game
Hosers Bob & Doug McKenzie refuse to die, or even retire. Not now, not just yet.
Why, eh? ìWell,î muses Great White North co-creator and comic Dave Thomas, ìall I can give you is my theories, because I donít really have a definite answer.î
We are talking by phone from his base in Los Angeles. The conversation is initiated because Thomas and pal Rick Moranis did a return gig as the hoser moose in Brother Bear 2, after scoring great reviews for their whimsical work in the 2003 original.
Brother Bear 2, one of Disneyís direct-to-DVD sequels, arrived in stores on Tuesday. It has the McKenzie-like moose, Rutt (Moranis) and Tuke (Thomas), falling in moosifer love with two fine females (fellow Canadians Andrea Martin and Catherine OíHara).
ìWe actually liked it,î the 57-year-old Thomas says of working in Brother Bear 2 with the now reclusive Moranis. ìRick is not a big fan of acting any more because of going into the trailer and sitting around for 10 hours for every one hour that you work. But doing voice-overs is quick and clean. And you can do the whole thing in the morning. You can go home and youíre done for the day.
ìPlus they let us improvise, which was fun because thatís how we do those characters and they (animators at Walt Disney Studios) recognize that.î
Same thing for the hosers. ìAs long as the McKenzie Brothers can improvise, Rick and I are comfortable because, when we lock ourselves into a script, it gets uncomfortable. Weíve never found anyone who we think can write for those characters … except us.î
That brings us back to the why question: Why do Bob & Doug still have a cachet nearly three decades after they were created as Canadian content for SCTV. Why are they so recognizable even when disguised as animated moose in a Disney childrenís film?
ìI always thought,î says the amiable Thomas, ìthat in television, when you do direct address to camera, youíre a step ahead of any of the dramatic stuff, when people are turned sideways and talking to each other.
ìThese characters are like Muppets. They are very non-threatening and very stupid. And stupid characters play really well and travel well in comedy. Smart comedians play to a very small audience, Iíve found.
ìAnd I think the beer definitely made them perennial with college kids.î Specifically, the Bob & Doug movie, Strange Brew, became ìa youth college cult film,î Thomas says of their only big-screen effort.
As reported here Aug. 15, CBC-TV is backing a one-hour 24th anniversary Strange Brew special next May. The show will include unseen clips, fresh McKenzie Brothers improv and interviews with cast members, as well as with Demi Moore, who auditioned for the female lead but who was rejected. ìSo thatís always been a joke with her,î Thomas says.
Thomas and Moranis are also trying to get Warner Home Video, which owns the Strange Brew DVD rights, to wait until next May to put out a planned special edition. ìI told them we wanted to synch up in a meaningful way; otherwise we werenít going to give them any bonus material at all.î
Thomasí animation company has also signed a development deal with Global TV to produce a flash animation series featuring the McKenzie Brothers, Thomas says.
Meanwhile, there is the Brother Bear movies. And it is no accident that the characters are named Rutt and Tuke, not Bob & Doug.
ìWe wouldnít give Disney the McKenzie Brothers,î Thomas says. ìWe said: ëOur voices sound similar to the McKenzie Brothers, so youíll get what you want. But we donít want the words McKenzie Brothers appearing anywhere in the Disney contract, or otherwise youíll own it. We own the characters and we didnít want to give them away. So they couldnít use, ëTake off,í or any of our catch phrases.î
Thomas and Moranis are aware of how rigorously Disney lawyers protect their alleged character rights. The Winnie the Pooh lawsuits are a good lesson.
ìIf you give a big company like Disney a legal toehold to the characters at all, theyíve got you,î Thomas says.
Regardless, the Disney filmmakers and much of the audience for the Brother Bear series know who Thomas and Moranis are channeling into their characters. And that has kept the McKenzie Brothers from fading away.
ìThe weird thing about it is that, every time Rick and I thought these characters were dead, somebody else would want to do it and keep them alive.î

Bob & Doug brew up CBC special
Hosers Bob & Doug McKenzie are coming back for a last hurrah, co-creator Dave Thomas said Monday.
Thomas and collaborator Rick Moranis have sold the idea of a comedy special to CBC-TV, Thomas told the Sun from L.A. The one-hour show is tentatively scheduled for May of 2007. It will mark the 24th anniversary of their hoser flick Strange Brew, which still boasts a cult following.
“There will be original footage of us as the hosers,” Thomas said of the special, which will also include vintage clips and fresh interviews with other Brew stars, as well as with Demi Moore, who auditioned but was rejected for a role.
As for reprising the McKenzie Brothers, “It will probably be our last time to do this, too,” Thomas said. Then they’ll take off, eh!