Perhaps he might feel at home on Sammy Maudlin's night time show. And then on Sunday, we could do ethnic program, with the Schmenge Bros., brought to you by Mrs. Vilve Yachke's catering. 

Ed Needle would be News Director and do the Editorials. Ed-itorials, get it? Lola Heatherton could be Music Director and Entertainment Reporter, plus Edith Prickley would be  Program Director. When we were producing "Radio Kandy" with John Candy in LA '89-'90, Andrea Martin came in to guest and we had her do Edith Prickly as John's program Director for the full two hours...interrupting John, telling him how he should do radio. It was a classic show (mainly thanks to John and Andrea's ad libs.

The Radio Kandy Shows were sent to U.S. stations on vinyl. I do have almost all of those shows. We did two hours a week, 52 weeks for 2 years, so just over 200 hours. John wanted to do almost an SCTV on radio with parody commercials, which we did and of course, we played music. We even had Jimmy Doohan as Scotty, Radio Kandy's engineer. I wrote all of those opens & closes and John and Jimmy were magic together.  I'll send some segments to you RA and you can put them on SOWNY if that's works for you. 

Doug Thompson wrote:

The Radio Kandy Shows were sent to U.S. stations on vinyl. I do have almost all of those shows. We did two hours a week, 52 weeks for 2 years, so just over 200 hours. John wanted to do almost an SCTV on radio with parody commercials, which we did and of course, we played music. We even had Jimmy Doohan as Scotty, Radio Kandy's engineer. I wrote all of those opens & closes and John and Jimmy were magic together.  I'll send some segments to you RA and you can put them on SOWNY if that's works for you. 

That would be amazing! I will be in touch to see how we can proceed. 

it's not surprising that someone as talented as Martin Short has been spending a good deal of personal time with Meryl Streep, whether they're best friends or something more romantic remains to be seen

as a teenager I always thought SCTV deserved as much attention and praise as SNL even though they were very different creations

I would love to hear the The Radio Kandy Show segments on the big yellow board. 🤞🎙️📻

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Radio Kandy demo reel
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/L5Du2kfqgbLQ2VsY/?mibextid=zWBbVw

Hansa, that demo with Don Pardo was NOT for "Radio Kandy". We did that for Transtar in the U.S. This was for Telemedia in Canada.
It was for a weekly 90 minute Canadian radio show, "That Radio Show with John Candy". 
Q107 carried it in Toronto. Loved working with Don Pardo on this demo. I wrote Pardo's lines. John adlibbed his parts.