This is FRESH AIR. John Candy, the comic actor who rose to fame in the sketch comedy series "SCTV" and such films as "Stripes," "Splash" and "Spaceballs," died at age 43 in 1994. Now, 31 years later, ...

Early in the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me, there's an excerpt from Candy's 1994 funeral. Saturday Night Live alum Dan Aykroyd eulogized his friend and collaborator. "This is no meager life we ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Candy, as seen in "John Candy: I Like Me" Amazon MGM Studios Last Christmas, I was overcome by the sudden urge to watch “Home ...

Canadian comedians famously hate it when people mistake them for American citizens. I’m sure that, right about now, there are a few funny Canucks up in heaven who are looking down on us Yanks and ...