Brian McConnachie (National Lampoon, SNL, SCTV, The Simpsons)

Brian McConnachie joined me to talk about early influences; Kukla, Fran & Ollie; Catholic prep school discipline; going to NY to sell his cartoons; Kit & Kaboodle; Alcoholic's Christmas; Heading for Trouble; Cochise at Oxford; Neglectful Mother Magazine; Guns & Sandwiches; Weight Waddlers; Tell Debbie; National Lampoon Radio Hour; Moby Dick; parodying Broadway shows; leaving the National Lampoon; watching the first SNL; doing a live PBS presentation of Rhapsody in Blue (with lyrics); his first wee, at SNL; getting a sketch on; Frank Zappa; a lost Emily Litella sketch; Name Those Bats; Veterans of Foreign Hairstyles; appearing on camera; Mr. Mike's Mondo Video; Lorne almost cancels a piece making fun of a sponsor; Caddyshack leads Brian not to come back for the 5th season; being over-payed by Caddyshack; Rodney Dangefield; SCTV v. SNL; winning an mmy and having Milton Berle mispronounce your name; Vikings & Beekeepers; Strange Brew; Max von Sydow; an unaired SCTV sketch parodying Harold Pinter; Woody Allen; Shining Time Station; regretting not meeting George Carlin; Bill Murray; how he wrote an episode of The Simpsons and one written about him; and his humor magazine American Bystander.