John Candy's journey began in the vibrant world of sketch comedy with the Toronto branch of Second City. This environment fostered his improvisational skills and comedic timing, allowing him to ...

Candy died in 1994 at age 43. Now, a new Amazon Prime documentary does a fine job of profiling a gifted entertainer who was also, by all accounts, a very sweet human being.

Many of Candy’s most popular and famous characters have a charm that makes the viewer feel like he’s your own father. “I think he kind of was recreating the relationship that he might not have had ...

Martin Short has a very modest explanation for his versatility. “I have a very Canadian-actor career,” says Short, in an ...

The recent Amazon documentary John Candy: I Like Me painted a portrait of the Canadian comic’s enduring legacy in film and television. The wide array of larger-than-life characters he created on SCTV ...

Obviously, I saw the movie, which included John Candy as Freddie Bauer, Tom Hanks' on-screen brother. Three years passed, and ...

If there’s a scene that best encapsulates the tragically abbreviated career of John Candy, it’s not necessarily from his time on the sketch-comedy series “SCTV” or from movies like “Stripes” or “Uncle ...