Catherine O'Hara

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MARRY ME

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― bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.csfd.cz/photos/herci/1803.jpg

― bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

i know her niece

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

also my friend has a copy of bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

so do i! i just found the dvd for a dollar!

― bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

have you seen it, s1ocki?

― bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

"i said to him, 'ron, you gotta do something!' and he said to me, 'well, why don't you get one of those...vagina enlargement surgeries?'"

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

(aka i luv c. o'h.)

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

no i've always meant to see it! dean & jerry impersonators!! is it awesome?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

it's really bizarre and unfunny! i loved it.

― bela lugosi meets a brooklyn gorilla (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 23 July 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

I fall for catherine every time

oh I'd better go watch some SCTV right now

― milton parker (Jon L), Saturday, 23 July 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

"i said to him, 'ron, you gotta do something!' and he said to me, 'well, why don't you get one of those...vagina enlargement surgeries?'"

PSST ... PSST ... GIRL TALK.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 23 July 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

I wanna beeeeeear yooooooour children! Ahahahahahahaha!

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Saturday, 23 July 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Her sister's pretty swell too.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/images/pics/ohara.jpg

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 23 July 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Lola Heatherton, consumate talk show guest & all around entertainer

http://sctv.org/characters/lola/lola.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 23 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Still hot, still painfully funny.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Those weird gestures and facial expressions she makes during the "BORING! BORING!" part of "Nothing Ever Happens on Mars" make me laugh uncontrollably.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 23 July 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

everyone who starred in waiting for guffman really deserves their own thread if they haven't gotten one yet, i think

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 23 July 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Her best moment was her on SCTV doing Brooke Shields dancing to and singing to Devo's "Whip It".

― donut ferry (donut), Sunday, 24 July 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

No. Brenda Fricker was the main hottie in the Home Alone films.

"Oh, Kevin, tank ye"

― JTS, Sunday, 24 July 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

eighteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8rZq3oKuI

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 9 February 2024 03:26 (one year ago)

Sorry, non-potato version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWP-PcEwyY

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 9 February 2024 03:29 (one year ago)

Just announced that she's going to be in season 2 of "The Last of Us," playing a character not in the video game.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 9 February 2024 08:12 (one year ago)

Cookie is the best. It's unreal how often I randomly get the God Loves a Terrier song in my head.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 9 February 2024 10:44 (one year ago)

unexpected moira rose reprisal or gtfo xp

― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 February 2024 15:48 (one year ago)

one year passes...

Salut, RIP, the best of all of humanity, etc.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 January 2026 19:18 (five days ago)

:( She really was the best

― Venus of Willendorf on Golf (jaymc), Friday, 30 January 2026 19:20 (five days ago)

Damn, that's heartbreaking.

― peace, man, Friday, 30 January 2026 19:22 (five days ago)

Aw man...

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 30 January 2026 19:22 (five days ago)

Oh no. :( Just finished watching The Studio and was thinking once again about what a treasure she is, way too soon.

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 30 January 2026 19:23 (five days ago)

Going back to 2005 on here:

Her best moment was her on SCTV doing Brooke Shields dancing to and singing to Devo's "Whip It".

Objectively correct (among many correct answers):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eV6vRLDj_s

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 January 2026 19:23 (five days ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDU5l4ewaRc

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 January 2026 19:28 (five days ago)

I'll go with one of Whispers of the Wolf (which I've posted too many times already..."Who booked Bergman?!") or Lola and Bobby Bittman plugging On the Waterfront Again ("Well, it was in a few places...").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0J3AkEiisA

― clemenza, Friday, 30 January 2026 19:36 (five days ago)

Of the millions and millions of people who've seen Home Alone, I wonder what percentage know her SCTV work? You'd have to put every kid aside right away...maybe a third of adults? I don't know.

― clemenza, Friday, 30 January 2026 19:39 (five days ago)

RIP

She made everything she was in sparkle

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 30 January 2026 20:42 (five days ago)

I wonder what percentage know her SCTV work?

I think it's safe to say that most Americans have little idea how much Canada and Canadians has influenced comedy in general

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 30 January 2026 21:03 (five days ago)

One story goes that at the wrap party of Heartburn, in which O'Hara co-starred with Meryl Streep, someone screened this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPrHxPvsj4M&

― cryptosicko, Friday, 30 January 2026 21:10 (five days ago)

(xpost) True...I think I'd nominate O'Hara as the funniest woman to ever come out of Canada. Andrea Martin's great, but I'd give the edge to O'Hara (maybe I've forgotten someone else).

― clemenza, Friday, 30 January 2026 21:16 (five days ago)

Oh, man, that clip! "I've cried a lot..."

― clemenza, Friday, 30 January 2026 21:19 (five days ago)

oh no RIP, after seeing her so recently in Last Of Us and The Studio this is a shock

― obvious old hat (rob), Friday, 30 January 2026 21:23 (five days ago)

Didn't know she was in either of those. What a career!

Can't think of anyone who might challenge O'Hara as Canada's funniest woman, especially if we disqualify Andrea Martin on the technicality of being born in the US (though she made her career here).

― cryptosicko, Friday, 30 January 2026 21:30 (five days ago)

Geez, didn't even know that.

― clemenza, Friday, 30 January 2026 21:37 (five days ago)

I wonder if SCTV's writers considered sneaking in a nod to method-acting just before she blowed up: "Can you explain to me again why I'm blowing up?"

― clemenza, Friday, 30 January 2026 21:40 (five days ago)

the duet of Mitch & Mickey at the end of Mighty Wind still sticks out in my mind, what a sweet song that was

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 30 January 2026 22:26 (five days ago)

Someone (one of you?) posted this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyjvkDAEuho

So shy, so Canadian

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 January 2026 22:26 (five days ago)

Second City (Chicago) and Second City Toronto’s social media accounts shared separate tributes, with Toronto showing a few brief clips, but Chicago’s has some great photos of O’Hara and her castmates from back in the day. I forgot Harold Ramis was also in the company, meaning more have passed than I realized.

I posted it before but her eulogy to John Candy is heartbreaking and I hope she gets one that’s just as moving because she certainly deserves it.

― birdistheword, Friday, 30 January 2026 23:52 (five days ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8CoPFXED_Y

― birdistheword, Friday, 30 January 2026 23:53 (five days ago)

Oh yeah, there are some lovely O'Hara moments (including the eulogy) in the recent Candy doc.

― cryptosicko, Friday, 30 January 2026 23:54 (five days ago)

Seems to vary depending on the platform but this was on all of the Second City IG accounts:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUJhauqESqa/?igsh=YnFva2V1b3IxM2Q4

Here are the photos I mentioned on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18s3nr5A1b/?mibextid=wwXIfr

― birdistheword, Friday, 30 January 2026 23:56 (five days ago)

Mmkkay I just watched this and had tears streaming down my cheeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZfPPM7GQ

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 31 January 2026 02:59 (four days ago)

Pretty great here, trust me:

https://bsky.app/profile/rilaws.bsky.social/post/3mdon2x2pa226

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 31 January 2026 04:54 (four days ago)

From https://bsky.app/profile/willmckinley.bsky.social/post/3mdqakzb2bc27

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.

S1: https://archive.org/details/sctv-season-1
S2: https://archive.org/details/sctv-season-2
S3: https://archive.org/details/19-midnight-express-special-069-season-3
S4-5: https://archive.org/details/66-sammy-maudlin-drug-abuse-in-hollywood-140-seasons-4-5
S6 + Cinemax: https://archive.org/details/sctv-s-06-e-02-gimme-jackie-australia #TVSky

― cryptosicko, Sunday, 1 February 2026 02:20 (three days ago)

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