She became a star of the sketch comedy show for her ability to play both comedic and dramatic characters, and “SCTV” marked the first of what would become O’Hara’s many collaborations with Levy across the next 50 years.
“A lot of people come up to me to talk about ‘SCTV’ — it is really amazing how long that show has lived on,” she said in 2008. “There have always been amazingly funny people in Canada, and we were just one group.”
“‘SCTV’ might have strengthened the idea that your work can go farther than the city or the country you live in, and made it seem more accessible,” she added at the time.
Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, O’Hara and Joe Flaherty, all pictured above, starred together on “SCTV.”
During a period when “SCTV” was in between network deals in 1981, O’Hara was hired to join the cast of “SNL.” However, she quit the Lorne Michaels-created sketch comedy after only a few days without ever appearing on air.
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