Favorite reoccuring character?

My favorite character (who oddly isn't listed on the cast list for some reason) was Martin Short's Ed Grimley. He was such a great character. It was made into a saturday morning cartoon called The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimly. But it's to bad that a movie was never made about him. I'm a big Martin Short fan, but he has made alot of stupid movies that don't even compare to the old Ed Grimly skits from SCTV.

And I would also like to mention the Mckenzie brothers. They were equally if not more funny. I can't believe how many people there are out there who haven't heard of them. They made a great movie in the 80's called Strange Brew. If you haven't seen it and you like funny movies, go out and rent it. you will laugh your butt off.

Besides the obvious ones like Guy Caballero, McKenzie Bros, etc. I loved the obscure characters too like Gerry Todd the video-whiz, angry conservative guy Bill Needle (who was Bill O'Reilly before Bill O'Reilly was Bill O'Reilly) and
Mayor Tommy Shanks, who was very dumb.

Count Floyd.


"You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore." -- Andy, Wet Hot American Summer

I have to disagree about the McKenzie Brothers - I was of the age where my first exposure to SCTV was when it was first syndicated in the U.S. in 1977, and besides, in high school in the early '80's, there were some people who spoke almost like them. So, without further adieu, my favorite characters . . .
- SCTV News anchors Floyd Robertson (Joe Flaherty) and Earl Camembert (Eugene Levy) - however, I lean more towards Floyd, especially pre-'81 (though in terms of turning Floyd into a lush after moving to NBC as SCTV Network 90 - a rather ill-advised strategy at that - one wonders if the stress of Earl's ineptitude would've driven him into that path)
- "Monster Chiller Horror Theater" host Count Floyd
- The Sammy Maudlin crew (Maudlin, William B., Bobby Bittman - not so much Lola Heatherton, though)
- First-season station manager Maurice "Moe" Green (Harold Ramis)
- Johnny LaRue (in small doses)
- Mayor Tommy Shanks (more in those "fireside chats")
- V.J. Gerry Todd (not so much the pseudo-"videos," though some are classic - i.e. the CSN&Y "White Christmas" and "Ride with the Wind")