THE MONTALBAN METHOD

Here is SCTV’s ‘Ricardo Montalban School of Fine Acting’. (The inclusion of ‘fine’ is very important, in an SCTV-ish kind of way). Every piece of this skit kills me but none so much as Joe Flaherty playing Terry Malloy as played by Ricardo Montalban. Oh, and Gene Shalit learning to mime from Ricardo is the type of off-kilter SCTV touch that made the late hour the show aired (after midnight on Saturdays) somehow appropriate in its ‘did I just see that or did I have a weird dream’ way. Best just to roll video…

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