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Catherine O'Hara Passed Away

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In reply to YouBet • 4:03p, 1/30/26
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YouBet said:
I don't remember her in Six Feet Under? Watched that whole series. May need a rewatch. Great show.

She was Lisa's overbearing actress boss. They lived in her back house and Nate always blocked the driveway.

RIP to a great one.
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4:43p, 1/30/26
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In my younger years, as mentioned by another poster, I remember watching SCTV on late night reruns and thinking it was the funniest thing there was, especially Great White North with Bob and Doug McKenzie. O'Hara would do Brooke Shields and Katherine Hepburn. SCTV was just so different, low budget, and funny for me back then.

O'Hara
John Candy
Rick Moranis
Eugene Levy
Harold Ramis
Joe Flaherty
Martin Short

I used to say, "Dewey Decimal System," when guessing random stuff because of Catherine O'Hara in this sketch. Also, the Rick Moranis "I can go fix that" and Flaherty's, "I might be wrong, and correct me if I am.."





A lot of O'Hara in this one with Moranis jumping the punchline a few times is so funny.

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In reply to 62strat • 5:33p, 1/30/26
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62strat said:
what a career going from sketch comedy to beetlejuice and kevin's mom then a resurgence with sch*tt's creek which she was hilarious in.

All the Christopher guest movies
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5:38p, 1/30/26
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She had more good roles in her. So sorry to say goodbye to a classic. Been watching her since the SCTV days.

RIP
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5:44p, 1/30/26
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Seth Rogen said, "Really don't know what to say… I told O'Hara when I first met her I thought she was the funniest person I'd ever had the pleasure of watching on screen. Home Alone was the movie that made me want to make movies. Getting to work with her was a true honour [stet]. She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… she made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. This is just devastating. We're all lucky we got to live in a world with her in it."
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5:54p, 1/30/26
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In reply to cajunaggie08 • 6:15p, 1/30/26
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cajunaggie08 said:
I watched the John Candy documentary last month and I hadnt watched much SCTV but the skits she was in were fantastic. And of course they showed the John Candy van improv bits from filming home alone.

That was a great watch. Her ability to keep a straight face while he was sitting there riffing was pretty amazing - and there was no rehearsal because he just flew in that day to do the scenes as a favor.

The documentary also had a clip of Candy talking about how they couldn't do topical humor on SCTV because they never when they were going to air. That might've had something to do with why it was still funny for those of us watching it later in reruns, since I guess it gave them more freedom to do weird or abstract humor that wasn't tied to the events of the week.

*Sidenote: loved Norm's interactions w/ Catherine and w/ Eugene Levy when he hosted the Canadian Screen Awards
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8:33a, 1/31/26
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This movie is total crap but Catherine O'Haras reaction RIGHT at the beginning is hilarious…..it's when her character discovers nude pictures she had taken end up on the Internet on her son's computer….

You can literally quit watching after about 5 seconds good grief the rest of this movie is terrible….

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In reply to Max Power • 9:11a, 1/31/26
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Max Power said:

Curb Your Enthusiasm - her episode as Bam Bam is incredible


So good.

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62strat said:
what a career going from sketch comedy to beetlejuice and kevin's mom then a resurgence with sch*tt's creek which she was hilarious in.

All the Christopher guest movies



I think in one of those movies, Michael McKean and his wife wrote a song for O'Hara and Levy that was nominated for an Academy Award. A great, sad song that was written and performed by improv comedians turned out so well is amazing. In the movie, McKean goes, "I know this song"





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2:48p, 1/31/26
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I have been a huge O'Hara fan, and consider her role as Moira Rose to be her magnum opus.

I first saw O'Hara during her SCTV days. I was a huge fan of that cast, whom most Americans had not yet been introduced. Candy, Levy, Short, Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Martin, et al.

I consider her to be one of the all time great comedic actresses.
Class of '91 (MEEN)
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In reply to tamuags08 • 5:31p, 1/31/26
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tamuags08 said:
Max Power said:

Curb Your Enthusiasm - her episode as Bam Bam is incredible


So good.


I need to go back and watch this one, I can remember losing my mind laughing the first time I saw this episode, thanks for posting this.
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7:29p, 1/31/26
I forget that Eugene Levy worked with her for 50 YEARS. They were so iconic in *****t's Creek, but that only came together because they had been doing it for years.

There aren't many actresses still working in their 70s.

She had a MUCH sharper edge than all the rest. And by all accounts, was also a perfectly nice person offscreen without the same edge.

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Words seem inadequate to express the loss I feel today. I had the honor of knowing and working with the great Catherine O'Hara for over fifty years," said Eugene in a statement. "From our beginnings on the Second City stage, to SCTV, to the movies we did with Chris Guest, to our six glorious years on *****t's Creek, I cherished our working relationship, but most of all our friendship. And I will miss her.
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7:42p, 1/31/26
Best in Show is the funniest minute by minute movie I know. She's so great.



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