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Second City Television, or SCTV, was a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from the Toronto troupe of the Second City and ran from 1976 to 1984. Broadcaster and surgeon Charles A. "Chuck" Allard formed a partnership in 1981 that acquired the fledgling series.
- 1959
Feb 24, 2024 · The improv and comedy organization that famously shuns New York City has just opened in Brooklyn — with a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage, classrooms and a restaurant.
- Martin Short. Martin Short was planning to be a social worker until his college friend Eugene Levy got him into a legendary Toronto production of “Godspell,” alongside other future Second City performers Andre Martin and Dave Thomas, plus Victor Garber and Short’s then-girlfriend Gilda Radner.
- Alan Arkin. Academy Award winner Alan Arkin joined the Second City Chicago cast back in 1960, which launched him to a career on Broadway, which led him to Hollywood.
- John Candy. The late John Candy was only 19 when he joined the Second City Toronto cast in 1973 and just 22 when he became part of the SCTV cast. By the '80s, Candy was starring in string of classic comedies, starting with “Stripes” and continuing through “Splash,”“Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,” “Spaceballs,” “Uncle Buck,” “Home Alone” and “Cool Runnings.”
- Gilda Radner. Gilda Radner was another American who developed as a performer north of the border, joining The Second City Toronto when it opened in 1973.
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Dec 16, 2009 · Second City Looks Back in Laughter. CHICAGO On a frigid Wednesday night in December 1959, a revolution in comedy began here, almost unobserved. In a partly refurbished Chinese laundry in a ...
Sep 19, 2023 · Tuesday September 19 2023. UPDATE 9/19/23: Comedy institution The Second City will officially open its new 12,000-square-foot entertainment complex at 64 N. 9th Street in Williamsburg on November ...
Mar 10, 2019 · The comedy troupe’s practice of taking improv suggestions from the audience — a practice that continues at most Second City shows today — began on a 1955 opening night in the Compass ...
The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise. It is the oldest improvisational theater troupe to be continuously based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre opened on December 16, 1959, and has become one of the most influential and prolific comedy theatres in the English-speaking world. In February 2021, ZMC, a ...
