As ‘SCTV’ Doc Hits Netflix, Where Are the Sketch Comedy Show’s Stars Now?
Though its semi-centennial anniversary earlier this year didn’t get the same play as, say, SNL50, the sketch-comedy series SCTV is getting another moment in the spotlight with the new Netflix documentary SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of.
Running on Canadian and then American TV from 1976 to 1983, SCTV took talent from Toronto’s Second City comedy troupe and offered sketches in the form of clips from a fictitious TV network.
And though Netflix’s doc presumes you’ve never heard of SCTV, you’ve almost certainly heard of some of the show’s stars, particularly if you’re a fan of Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, or Schitt’s Creek. Get to know the cast members — and their post-SCTV careers — below.
SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of, Friday, October 30, Netflix
Eugene Levy
Aside from his SCTV work, Levy made a name for himself in Christopher Guest mockumentary films — including Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind — and in the American Pie series of comedy films. Levy and his son, Dan, co-created and starred in Schitt’s Creek, which swept the major comedy categories of the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards and gave Levy his first Emmy wins since his SCTV days. Levy starred as himself in Only Murders in the Building Season 4, and he currently hosts the travel docuseries The Reluctant Traveler.
Robin Duke
After her SCTV stint, Duke kept her sketch-comedy career by joining the cast of Saturday Night Live in place of SCTV’s Catherine O’Hara — who backed out of the show in 1981 — and Duke stayed in the cast until 1984. In 2004, she cofounded the all-female comedy troupe Women Fully Clothed and became a comedy instructor at Toronto’s Humber College. She reunited with O’Hara and fellow SCTV star Eugene Levy in 2016 when she started recurring as Wendy Kurtz on Schitt’s Creek. She also appears in the new comedy film The Snake, which premiered at SXSW earlier this year.
Andrea Martin
These days, Martin is known as a star of the My Big Fat Greek Wedding film trilogy and for her roles on Broadway. In fact, she’s currently the actor with the most Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nominations, having received nods for My Favorite Year (1993), Candide (1997), Oklahoma! (2002), Young Frankenstein (2008), and Pippin (2013). Her wins for My Favorite Year and Pippin mean she’s tied with Audra McDonald and Judy Kaye for the most wins in that category. More recently, Martin guest-starred in The Gilded Age, Overcompensating, and Best Medicine.
Rick Moranis
Moranis joined the rank of big-screen stars with parts in Little Shop of Horrors and Spaceballs, and he starred in the Ghostbusters and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids franchises. Moranis took a step back from his screen career in the 1990s to care for his two children after the 1991 death of his wife, Ann Belsky, but he did get a Best Comedy Album Grammy nomination for his 2005 album The Agoraphobic Cowboy. Now he’s ending that onscreen hiatus with a reprise as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs: The New One, due for release in 2027. (“I really wasn’t retired. I was just negotiating,” he joked at Comic-Con this year.)
Martin Short
After SCTV, Short starred in Saturday Night Live from 1984 to 1985 and became a bankable comedy film star with his performances in the likes of Three Amigos, Innerspace, and the Father of the Bride series. On television, Short starred in The Martin Short Show, Primetime Glick, Mulaney, and Maya & Marty. On stage, Martin earned the 1999 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical with his performance in Little Me. Since 2021, Short has starred in Only Murders in the Building alongside frequent comedy partner Steve Martin, and he also hosts the latest iteration of the game show Match Game.
Dave Thomas
Thomas followed SCTV with the short-lived sketch-comedy series The Dave Thomas Show before joining the cast of the hit sitcom Grace Under Fire. In 2003, Thomas and Moranis voiced moose characters based on SCTV’s Bob and Doug McKenzie in the Disney film Brother Bear. In other Hollywood work, Thomas wrote episodes of Grace Under Fire, Bones, and The Blacklist and served as a consulting producer on the latter two. And in 2025, Thomas and other SCTV stars paid tribute to one of their beloved colleagues in the documentary John Candy: I Like Me.
John Candy
After breaking out in SCTV, Candy starred in big-screen comedies including Spaceballs, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, and Cool Runnings. He also had small parts in The Blues Brothers, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Little Shop of Horrors, and Home Alone. Off screen, Candy was a co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He died of a heart attack in 1994 at age 43 and was recently memorialized in the documentary John Candy: I Like Me.
Harold Ramis
Ramis wrote and starred in 1984’s Ghostbusters and 1989’s Ghostbusters II, joining Moranis in those productions. He also directed the films Caddyshack, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Groundhog Day, Analyze This, and Analyze That. Stepping in front of the camera, Ramis took small parts in As Good as It Gets, High Fidelity, and Knocked Up. He died of complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis in 2018 at age 69. Second City honored him by introducing the Harold Ramis Film School in Chicago in 2017, and in 2024, the city of Chicago declared February 2 as Harold Ramis Day.
Tony Rosato
Like Duke, Rosato transferred from SCTV to SNL in 1981, but he only lasted one season on the American sketch-comedy series. He then recurred in the Canadian police drama series Night Heat and voiced Luigi in Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World TV shows. In the 2000s, a decline in Rosato’s mental health took a toll on his career and personal life; he was later diagnosed with Capgras syndrome, a mental illness in which the affected person has the delusion that loved ones have been replaced by impostors. Rosato died of a suspected heart attack in 2017 at age 62.
Joe Flaherty
Flaherty moved on from SCTV with starring roles in the 1990s TV comedies Maniac Mansion and Police Academy: The Series. He also portrayed Harold Weir, father of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters, in Freaks and Geeks. On the big screen, Flaherty had a brief role as a heckler in the 1996 film Happy Gilmore. Like Duke, Flaherty offered his expertise at Humber College, serving as the artistic director and an artist in residence at the school’s comedy writing and performance program. He died in 2024, at age 82, following a brief illness.
Catherine O’Hara
O’Hara endeared herself to millennial pop culture fans with her parts in the 1988 comedy film Beetlejuice and the 1990s Home Alone movies. She and Levy costarred in Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, as well as For Your Consideration, another Christopher Guest mockumentary. O’Hara gained a new generation of fans when she played the Moira Rose to Levy’s Johnny Rose in Schitt’s Creek, a role that earned her a Primetime Emmy Award. Her subsequent credits included The Last of Us and The Studio. She died of a pulmonary embolism in January at age 71.
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