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- Reaction To The Red Green Show (Handyman Corner) Classic Canadian TV Comedy
This is my reaction to The Red Green Show (Handyman Corner) Classic Canadian TV Comedy
In this video I react to the Handyman Corner skit from The Red Green Show. Many people told me about this Canadian comedy television show so I thought I had to make a reaction to it and it didn't disappoint. The show stars Canadian comedian Steve Smith as the aforementioned Red Green.
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My favourite part of the show was the bit at the end when Red and the Possum Lodge guys would recite, 'the man's prayer': "I'm a man. But I can change. If I have to. I guess."
Ah-men.
The He-man Woman-haters club, lol
Quandi Onmus Flunkus Moritati kills me every time
My husbands favourite saying! I keep telling him it’s all lies, because he’ll never change! 😂😂
Remember if they don't find you handsome, they at least can call you handy.
"If a woman doesn't find you handsome, she should find you handy."
A life truth.
ya but.... "whores don't care about lumber" - bill burr.
It was a running joke in my part of the world back when this show was on TV to add "But at the very least ...learn how to cook."
I just love the fact that this show was supposed to be a one-off skit. And it turned into a multi-season National Treasure
It was originally a Smith & Smith bit, wasn't it?
Yes!
The Smith and Smith, husband and wife, show wasn’t very funny but this was always entertaining.
I’ve seen most episodes and they were all great!
@@briankearn6991 All episodes are available on TH-cam. Smith And Smith was a variety show, Red Green was just a 60 second bit. At the time the show was actually interesting, sort of along the lines of The Ed Sullivan Show. Just no dancing dogs in skirts.
The Red Green show still exists! There's a Patreon for new audio episodes that are quite good
They turned it into a sort of radio-show, which is neat, also gave voices to characters who were only ever mentioned (Old Man Sedgwick for example)@@mackado
As a Canadian, the genius of this show is that we all have an uncle that lives that close to the poverty line and makes it a proud lifestyle. We all can relate to these gags.
Made me the man I am today 😅
Or we are said uncle now that we have all grown up and we pass on watching these to the next generation so that our Canadian ways will continue. Also helped shape me into the man i am today because I know i am not handsome but I am handy. And you have to always make sure to have Duct Tape available
As a Kentuckian who grew up watching this on PBS, it's not just y'all.
can confirm
My Grandfather actually. When he needed to paint the house he didn't sand or do anything like that, just painted over all the old paint with a new color. And he bought so much of it everything was painted, floors, furniture, anything made of wood. And so when the paint chiped it was little multicolor layers of paint, as a kid I loved it.
Every guy I know has dressed as red green for Halloween at one point and using duct tape to fix something will forever be known as “red greening it” 😂
Handyman’s secret weapon 😂
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Steve Smith, aka Red Green, is a Canadian treasure. His shows are simply brilliant.
I always felt like Red Green is basically a parody of every rural Canadian Dad. I've met a lot of people who were just like him, from the clothing to the wacky feats of engineering ways around a problem.
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. Keep your stick on the ice.
Thanks for the memories! I loved this show especially all the times he used duct tape to fix things. There was always a hint of genius in his crazy ideas 🇨🇦
Well it IS the Handyman's Secret Weapon.
The real apex was when eventually he fixed a dryer duct... With electrical tape.
I love the sailboat of duct tape, and when he taped two half cars together... lmao.
“The winter of our discount tent”. Omg Red Green I forgot how much I loved this back in the day!!! 😂
And Spring hopes eternal and Endless Summerrrr.
Outing with bill
As a Canadian, I’ve been enjoying your videos on our comedy. And it is very similar to British humour. The Red Green show was great! Makes me feel nostalgic seeing this. There are so many great little shows: Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Kids In The Hall, Corner Gas, Wayne and Shuster. We seem to excel at polite, yet self deprecating, and corny humOur.
Air Farce are another big time Canadian comedy legendary group. I tend to lean more toward Trailer Park Boys than Kids in the Hall, I got their attraction and all, but they just never did it for me.
You forgot Codco, lol My favourite was the Greg Malone played Barbara Frum interviewing a Hurricane that was downgraded to a tropical storm. "Are you bitter?" friggen hilarious
Haven't thought about the Royal Canadian Air Farce in a long time. But you left out SCTV - the show that provided the seed and a lot of the early talent for Saturday Night Live
SCTV
A lot of great Canadian comedy . Loved them all. My faves were Trailer Park Boys and Corner Gas
Loved this show....the catch phrases still stick with me. "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy" and "keep your stick on the ice". Always full of ingenious hairbrained schemes.
"I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together"
And of course, the translation of the Possum Lodge motto is: "When all else fails, play dead."
Keep your stick on the ice
"Remember, this is only temporary... unless it works."
Love Red Green! Of course we all have our favourite characters from the show:
Nephew Harold (Patrick McKenna - in a lot of Canadian shows - Traders, Stargate sg1)
Hap Shaughnessy (Gordon Pinsent - great Canadian actor who recently passed away)
Dougie Franklin (Ian Thomas - brother of Dave Thomas who played hoser Doug McKenzie)
Edgar K. B. Montrose (Graham Greene - Oscar nomination for Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves)
That's just a few of the weird & wonderful characters on Red Green.....all were so much fun!
Oh my, Mert! You've jumped down a wonderful rabbit hole to be sure. There are so many great episodes I remember of this series. Harold is my absolute favorite character. Check out an episode with him. He's Red's nephew. Keep your stick on the ice!
Harold for Sure. Lots of Canadian Talent on this Show. :)
So many Wonderful Characters :)
@@hartplanet356 Do you remember, the crossover between the two shows, when Harold moved to the city. His segment was recorded on the set of Traders. :)
I thought Harold was also in due south but I might be mixing him up with someone else. Anyway, Patrick McKenna turned into Harold brilliantly. I tried teaching my kids about real Canadian culture by watching this show but they weren't having it.
@@Erndog67 I know he was on something else too but it escapes me. My kids are 46 and 38 so are old enough to appreciate this show. My son used to watch it with me. Have to ask if he's tried getting the grandsons to watch it.
I grew up with this show because it was originally a skit on Smith & Smith in the early 1980s. Another great skit from that show was The Inventor which was an entirely different character from Red Green, but pretty clearly the precursor of Handyman Corner. When the Red Green Show started shooting in Hamilton, my mom took me to see the taping. Then we saw tapings a few years later in London, Ontario. It was seriously funny stuff to be there live. They were constantly cracking jokes between takes and having fun with the audience. The show started out small and not widely known, but it got picked up by Global, a big private TV network, and was renamed the New Red Green Show for a while, and then finally ended up on CBC where it became a cultural phenomenon by the late 1990s - books, movies, TV commercials, etc.
I was hoping that someone would mention Smith & Smith!
I went to elementary school with Dave and Max Smith (the kids); Dave was in my class. Having such a well-known Dad (locally back in the day), I remember going over to their house once to play with Dave and when Steve Smith opened the door, I said, "Hello, Steve" as I walked in. He said, "glad we're on a first name basis, Jon.". I typically would have addressed friends' parents as Mr. or Mrs. Smith, but I saw all their names on the opening credits of each show so I got real life and TV life mixed up a bit as a kid. :)
I believe CHCH tv in Hamilton was where Smith & Smith was on. We loved it.
Just the thought of their theme song and her battle with cancer brings a tear to my eyes. Loved their comedy together.
CHCH had so much original programming in the ‘70s and ‘80s..
It was a fun time.
The Red Green Show has so many running gags, such a good show, takes me back.
This show is woven into the fibre of so many lives! I grew up overseas and when we moved back to Canada, I didn’t know how to connect culturally with my peers. Watching this show with them was a HUGE part of my connecting with Canadian culture and feeling like I belonged in it.
Can’t say enough how much this show helped an odd kid find a place in Canada.
In the pot hole video, I recognized his coat because I have one myself. It's a Canadian Armed Forces parka. Very warm. Also, I recall doing the cake in the pothole trick years ago when I worked up in the Yukon. The cook at the camp was terrible so one day the surveyors filled the potholes with her baking.
This was a staple of my early childhood. The man's prayer got frequently quoted at home, and i remember some of the handyman corner skits where they used hundreds, if not thousands of rolls of duct tape to fix a car or a boat and. It. WORKED. The crazy contraptions, his nephew who was both the weirdest guy and sometimes the only sane person there, lots of good memories. I should watch some of the greatest hits again.
He and his wife had a show called Smith &Smith before Red Green. Awesome show with singing and comedy skits
French Canadian here (Montreal). When I was a kid, I didn't speak English yet and I so didn't understand this show. Years later, wow, what a character, what a show.
I remember seeing him live, he's so funny. A staple in canadian handyman history
And the cast was extraordinarily professional. I saw them live a few times. There were almost no missed cues/flubbed lines. The few times it did happen, the performer said "Sorry" and immediately corrected the line and the crew carried on.
My brother worked on that show over the years and got me in to two of the shows (yes, the audience participated). The hilarious parts were the actors talking between the takes ... no way that dialogue would make it past the censors.
I think it's that way with a lot of comedies. CBC Radio(!) had a Saturday morning comedy program called Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show starring Bill Reiter. They taped some episodes at UBC, and believe me, a uni is a tough audience. But it was hysterical to watch, often because of miscues, or enjoying the foley man and his sound effect device, and especially the scores of casual and often crude remarks made by the cast between bits or after a flub. They must have trimmed 75% of what we heard away for show that actually aired. I caught the finished episode at my Saturday job and it was nothing near as funny as what we heard at school.
Handyman Corner is great and all, but the Red Green Show really shines as a unit. Yeah, it's sketch comedy, and each segment stands on its' own merit, but the cohesive nature of the characters interacting with each other at the Lodge create wonderful transitions between the sketches. Come to think of it, I can't think of anything like Red Green that came after. Wayne and Shuster did sketch comedy before them, but nothing came after.
So Mert, please watch a full episode. There's a whole host of zany, wonderful, flawed characters.
Almost every bit they ever did on the show is entertaining. Some of my favourites were the bits with extremely lonely Forest Ranger Gord, and others with bow-tied Winston from Rothchild Septic Sucking Service.
Omg I forgot about Winston. But as soon as you said the name of his business I heard from the void of old memories his exact voice, "Rosthchild Septic Sucking Services". It was eerie
You must check out the shows that include his nephew, Harold. Hilarious. We Canadians love to poke fun at ourselves.
Oh my goodness I love Harold ! His nerdy laugh !
Yes, yes yes!!!
Good old Red! You only need two things, a hammer and a roll of duct tape. If'n you can't fix it with the duct tape then, turn it into something else with the hammer. I loved the episode when he installed AC in his van's passenger door window. He could only drive as far as the extension cords length.
Handyman’s toolbox…duct tape and a hammer. If it’s stuck or not moving, use the hammer. If it’s loose or falling apart use the duct tape. If neither works, the problem must be electrical.
Red Green was a personal hero of mine.
The most important piece of advice i took from his shows was "always have a roll of duct tape handy".
The show was actually shot around my hometown and many times i noticed familiar landmarks.
I used to catch parts of this show on tv when I was a kid in the 90's. Now I can appreciate the genius of it and understand the innuendo in the other segments. So happy to see someone reacting to it.
I was surprised at how many of his projects were actually functional. I always loved his phrase in the handyman corner segments of his favourite building material: "...the handyman's secret weapon: duct tape." I suspect that this show is a major reason why duct tape has become such a popular material for so many different projects, but I am not certain of this.
Ohhh YES!! Without a doubt!! I personally have three rolls in my vehicle, two roll in my toolbox and I always keep a spare roll stashed in with my toilet paper because here in Canada... You just never know!
The classic red green show any ongoing shenanigans at the possum lodge are legendary.
Watch this, when I was young, it’s one of the rare shows that everyone in the family can enjoy, doesn’t offend anyone in anyway, but constantly is a source of entertainment
Big fan of RedGreen. We have seen him live as well. His preceding show was called Smith and Smith it was a comedy sketch show with his wife My first born was always up to be fed when Smith and Smith was on, I was hooked and it is forever linked in my memory with the fondest of memories of my first adventure into Motherhood.
This show is my childhood. "If my wife's watching i'll be home right after the meeting......". I forget what they'd be called but there's some good slapstick comedy every episode, think it's in black and white with Red narrating over it.
Adventures with Bill
Yes it's called adventures with Bill, hilarious!
I loved both Smith &Smith and Red Green shows. The Possum Lodge skits were great. The end of the show is great too.
Yes!! So glad you got to react to Red Green. There's so many funny segments on this show.. like the Possom lodge word game, where the "contestant" takes forever to guess the word even though the hints make it obvious. Then they're given some silly made up gift certificate for winning. At the end of the show they all come together to do The Man's Prayer - "I'm a man, but I can change if I have to.. I guess" haha.
Ahh yes!!! The Word Game!
Another one I liked from this show was an episode where he was standing in front of two golf carts and said he was shocked at how much it cost to play a round of golf, and as he put it “but the golf carts were only $20! So I bought two!”. LOL
There is a new show still running on CBC tv in Canada called Still Standing, Comedian Johnny Harris from Newfoundland and a star of the Murdoch Mysteries series, travels around Canada to small towns that are still standing despite hard times. Great show....
I ran a picnic park where Steve Smith aka Red Green taped episodes for his last three seasons. I was the park guy in one where they tried not to pay for boat ramp usage. Behind the scenes was hilarious and the inventive minds of his crew was exceptinal. Favourite part was watching te crew when they pulled off a gag that required something to be absoulutely destroyed and cheered like little boys jumping a ramp on a bike..
I watched Red Green every week. It was side splitting laughter for all of us. Lots of the jokes were very Canadian
My favourite parts were "My adventures with Bill", "The Exports", and "The Word Game". The guy who played Bill is Rick Green, who is part of The Frantics comedy troupe. I highly recommend listening to Boot to the Head. Another regular was Graham Green; yes, the guy from Dances with Wolves.
My absolute favourite comedy show was Corner Gas.
If you want to go way back, then there's Wayne and Shuster - The Brown Pumpernickel, Rinse the Blood from my Toga.
"I told him "Juli don't go" in a raspy voice that would just about make Julius Cesar go to the forum on the ides of March.
I grew up watching this show. The segments where they gave advice where always my favorite. The other characters on the show are as equally well written and preformed
oh this takes me back to my teens when I watched this show all the time. I loved Red's DIY projects. My favourite episode was when Red decided to build a BBQ in the back of his pick up truck. Red was a master of comedy with duck tape. 🤣🥰❤
This show was a huge part of my childhood. My family watched it all the time when it was on TV. Dad and I still quote the "Adventures with Bill" skits to this day.
There are few things as quintessentially Canadian as Red Green. This show is legendary and universally appreciated here. Adventures with Bill was usually the favorite bit in our house
When Bill does something that hurts Red, "Thank you, Bill."
Corny humour but totally endearing nevertheless. Absolutely amazing how the show’s crew manages to create these handyman “solutions”. I always loved his fixes using duct tape as a remedy for almost every problem in and around the home. (I don’t recall ever seeing “Bernice” though. 😅) 🇨🇦🥰❤️
So sorry but, unfortunately, I can’t respond to you on Telegram as I don’t have it. Not sure how it works as I’ve always used other methods. 🇨🇦🫤
A lot of great memories! My favorite handyman episode was when he painted a fence using an old wringer washing machine- ingenious!
Loved that episode
The Handyman's secret weapon! 😂 I love this show!
My husband loved Red Green so much and he also found multiple uses for duct tape. His daughter even found a t-shirt with words printed on which looked like duct tape. It said -
Duct tape is like The Force - it has a light side and a dark side - and it holds the Universe together.
Fantastic show. The humour was subtle in a lot of spots and totally slapstick in others. Thanks. This brought back a lot of memories.
What a blast from the past. I actually went to a taping of the show back in the day. My favourite segment was The Adventures with Bill. Great reaction.
LOVED, LOVED Steve Smith and the Red Green show! As I recall, it started in the very early '90s and ran for 15, or so years. There are so many outstanding Possum Lodge episodes, every one is funny but many of them will have you rolling on the floor. Patrick McKenna who played Red's nephew Harold was absolutely brilliant in the show. Couple of sayings from the show:
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy 😅 Keep your stick on the ice 😅 and of course, the handyman's secret weapon (duct tape) 😅
I've always found this show funny as a kid, but it gets even funnier looking back now that I'm in my 40's. It makes it even funnier that my dad was a handyman and looked exactly like this guy Steve. Great memories!
My family watched thus show for years. Duct tape was a staple in my own father's arsenal. I loved all of it, but I loved when another Canadian icon, Gordon Pinsent, was on. He played Hap, who would reminisce about his time in the navy. He was a stoker on a nuclear submarine, so he had to wear lead overalls.
I adored Red Green because when I moved from my hometown to where I am now I missed my original province. Red Green reminded me of it. One of my favorites is when Red made a pool table out of a picnic table and a few other things because I truthfully could see my family doing something like that.
I LOVE this show! Spent many nights as a (90's) child watching this with my late uncle. It will always remind me of him.
A couple Canadian shows from the 80's were called "Danger Bay" as well as "Beach Combers".. There was another show called "Littlest Hobo" with a dog..
A show I really liked to watch when growing up is called "Popular Mechanics for Kids". One of the hosts is Elisha Cuthbert who is a popular star now in movies..
There are a number of indigenous shows too.. a modern show is called "Reservation Dogs".. you might find hilarious too.. though it is filmed in Oklahoma..
and who can forget "Corner Gas" for a Canadian Show...
There's a voice, keeps on calling me. Down the road, that's where I'll always be. Every stop I make, I'll make a new friend. Can't stay for long, just turn around I'll be gone again....
@@senhowler 😊
Littlest Hobo, great classic Canadian show
@@senhowler WHOOOOA!!! That gave me goose bumps... I haven't heard those words in nearly fifty years! Another great kid mystery show that I loved back then was, My Secret Identity, which starred Jerry O'Connell (Sooo young!!) and Derek McGrath.
@@leonessity You'll never guess my Secret Identity. Who's on the inside hiding out. You never know what you'll see when you unlock the mystery. Sometimes this double life gets out of hand, but it's all in a day's work...for Ultraman.
Man, those theme songs stick with you.
I remember watching this when it was first aired and I found it hilarious and a great testimony to inventive people. Sure, some inventions look a bit strange but I was blown over when I spot, in the end credits, that every one was done for real and were actually functional. No trickery here!
Amazing!
I got to be in the studio audience for one of the episodes! One of my favourite childhood memories
Fabulous show - watched it in New Zealand. Loved it. Very funny.
I remember being a kid, and watching this with my Dad... God rest his soul... One day, for his birthday, we rented the Red Green movie from the ol movie store, and by golly, I laughed so hard hard my dad had to tell me to stop... I was 8. It was right up there with watching Yvon of the Yukon, and Star Gate. That last one's not so Canadian, but he liked it anyway.
I loved this show growing up. His main thing was using duct tape for everything.
I remember one episode he was trying to reuse broken things, he had a lawn mower, a ladder and a bike(cut in half) so he tried combining them into various things and failed many times. After a few failed ideas he said "if your first few ideas don't work, get more duct tape".
My dad watched Red Green all the time, a definite trip down memory lane, thanks for the video! Red Green is a Canadian classic
I could see having enough material for a couple of seasons but somehow Red Green had enough for years! I always wondered where he got his inspiration from. One episode I remember he put lawn mower blades under his car to mow the lawn in comfort. Another time he was going to sand several small pipe pieces and they all shot off the table. That one had me in tears!
Back in Houston in the 1990's we used to tune in to the Public Television station at 9:00 o'clock on Saturday night for what we called the Red Hour. It was an episode of Red Dwarf, followed by one of Red Green. The best of humor from Great Britain together with the best of Canadian humor. We about split a gut from laughing so hard. To this day, my wife and I will say "The Handyman's secret weapon. Duct Tape!" It was a tag line from the Handyman's Corner skits.
Oh this brings back memories. I watched this as a kid. My favourite part of the show, if I had to pick, would be the word game.
My dad didn’t watch TV, unless it was Red Green. That said, it’s one of those shows that most Canadian men have in common. Definitely Member Berries!
I remember a documentary about the show. They had a live audience for portions of it. And, for the ending credits, they would get audience members to come in and act as members of the lodge. The crew would hand out wooden clothespins with duct tape on them to audience members, to indicate that those people could be in the lodge credits scene. After a few months, people started making their own duct tape clothespins! They had counterfeit clothespins!
There was also a movie, Duct Tape Forever. Just as good as the show.
Oh man, I love Red Green. It’s not a show I think of often, but it’s always like a welcome surprise whenever I hear someone mention it or I see a clip. There were a lot of skits in the later seasons with a variety of supporting characters that was also very funny, and there was always something wholesome and charming about the blurry line between genius and absurdity in Red’s creations.
I was a member of the Possum Lodge Fan Club when I was a kid. Never forget The Possum Lodge oath "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (When all else fails, play dead)
Thanks for this, as a Canadian, I haven't seen The Red Green Show for quite a few years now, very entertaining. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I watched this many times as a kid. Good show.
Always loved the great Canadian icons added like Gordan pincent.
Loved the Red Green Show! So funny!! 😂 Corner Gas is a great Canadian tv show to watch too!
This was a favorite show of mine when I was younger. Two segments I always hoped to catch were Handyman's Corner and Adventures with Bill
This man instilled so much wisdom in this show. Including
The handman's secret wepon duct tape
If it ain't broke you're not trying
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy
Remeber I'm pulling for you, we're all in this together.
And closed out every show with the following 3 phrases.
Keep your stick on the ice
Quando omni flunkus, moritati (when all else fails, play dead)
And thr man's prayer: I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.
I remember when he and his wife, Morag, had a musical/comedy show called Smith & Smith. That was a hoot but the Red Green Show kicked the humour up a notch! Lol
I was lucky enough to go to a taping of the show in Toronto. I dressed up in my best flannel shirt and suspenders and was asked to join other like dressed audience members to go on stage for the "start of the meeting" portion of the show. It was fun and nerve racking.
On your travels, don't miss SCTV, perhaps the greatest of all Canadian Comedy Shows. Red Green is a living treasure for Canada...I think he was like that in person, funny and self-defacing in the Canuck style.
I distinctly remember watching this show with my dad. what a classic
Red Green was an amazing comedy show. The first handyman corner that came to mind was the episode where he converted a refrigerator into a dishwasher.
Thanks for getting around to this, love this show, I miss it soooo much. Thanks for the memories, one of my fav segments of Handyman Corner was when he cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving or when they did the beer advent calendar. This show was filmed at the CBC building in Toronto, my dad went there with a few of friends and saw Steve Smith aka Red Green, they said he was one of the nicest guys they ever met, he gave them a roll of duct tape and signed it.
My son met him when he was around 8 or 9. Red was his idol. He still talks about it to this day.
My favorite segment of the show was Adventures with Bill (Bill being played by Rick Green of the Frantics), it was the part of the show that was closest to the show that the show was a parody of, Red Fishers Scuttlebutt Lodge, one of the first fishing programs that was made in Michell Ontario in the 60's and 70's by a retired American living there.
Adventures With Bill rocked the casbah!
@@theripper1705 Yes!! the 'Adventures with Bill' were always a highlight. Mert will love the physical comedy always featured in those adventures. Bill (Rick Green) was always brilliant.
@@rossmacintosh5652"Thank you, Bill"
Love this show. I remember the handyman corner where he made a car with a retractable wheelbase using a boat trailer winch to make shorter radius turns. Brilliant!
One of my favorite TV shows of all time. We have an LG TV and it has it's own TV channels and there is one that is 24/7 Red Green. I can watch it for hours. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'd completely forgotten about Red Green. Used to watch it. Thanks for reminding me about his show! I'm going to be watching some of the shows again. I couldn't stop laughing!
I grew up watching this show whenever it came on. Both me as a child and my parents loved it. I don't see it anymore. I miss it.
Oh man I forgot about this show. Sooooo funny! I really enjoyed watching this. Even more than when it was on air cause when it was on air I was still a kid. Getting a lot more out of it now haha. Thanks for this.
I loved on HandyMan Corner when the old circular outdoor patio table got turned into a surfboard. Red Green was an excellent TV past time for me and brought about a few, "Not in my shop, you aren't!" from my Dad as I watched the show besides him.
Growing up used to always watch this show with my dad still very fond memories, miss him every day.
They are always sincere in their craziness.
Grew up watching this, thanks for the memories. "Keep your stick on the ice!"
I played drums in a backup band for him and his wife's comedy show one Saturday afternoon, at a very rich golf course! Of course they were being themselves and not the Red Green character. Their act was called "Smith & Smith", and I had no idea that was my gig that afternoon. I played with the band many time before, but we always played classic rock music from the 1960's and 70's. Now, the audience were all very well dressed people in their 60's, 70', 80's and 90's. It wasn't until after I had set my drums up that I found out what we were doing, and the bandleader told me it was a comedy show and we'd be playing 6 songs, with comedy bits from Smith & Smith in between. "I'll tell you the groove of the next song, and just use your ears, it'll be fine man!". The songs were comedy songs, and in between were comedy bits and stories, old time comedy, very clean, kind of like jokes Bob Hope or Dean Martin might do, back and forth between him and his wife. The comedy was SO old timey and corny that I laughed quite a bit, and the audience LOVED it!
Smith & Smith had their act together, and were so nice I would love to have them as my neighbours. Just down to earth folks. He played acoustic guitar as I remember and she played tambourine, and they both sang. Obviously they had been performing together for decades.In the end, it was a one hour show outdoors on a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon with happy people, and for that I also got paid 300 dollars :) After that, us band guys packed up, went out for dinner, then drove to a pub where we did a full night of classic rock. What a good day.
Red Green ( played by Steve Smith) was the funniest show. There are so many favourite bits. Duct tape fixes anything, One of my favourite bits was the Possum Lodge word games. Thanks for taking me down memory lane. 🤣🤣🤣
Great reaction!! I've watched Red Green since day one, and it was a hilarious series!
Steve Smith (actual name of Red Green) is a comedic genius!!
What I've always loved with Handyman's Corner is that in some strange way - his ideas 'do' work...kind of! There is merit to his ideas, no matter how outlandish and seemingly ridiculous. Of course, most fail spectacularly - but as a mechanical engineer myself, I note all the things that 'could' work with his hairbrained ideas!
The parallel parking lift - yes, it could work. The poolside track/caterpillar system - heck, it DID work (won't be good at higher speed, but he drove that car, and it did exactly what he designed it to do!)
There are so, SO many others that could be watched, reviewed, and certainly laughed at!
Yes, his catch phrases are thus: "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy"; Duct tape is a "handyman's secret weapon"; and at the end of most episodes, there is the Possum Lodge meeting where the members recite 'the man's prayer': "I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to...I guess".
Awesome, all filmed here in Hamilton and surrounding area! Great people, funny kind and so much more! Thanks for this
What great memories I have! of Red Green.
DUCT TAPE - Solves everything! Red could prove that.
Canadians laugh at themselves and this show was the epitome of that.
It makes me so happy to see you watching Red Green for the first time. At one point, Red Green was making handy items out of duct tape, which he named the "Handyman's secret weapon". People began writing in to get the instructions. I think the most popular was the duct tape wallet. It looked really good!
Old school dude a true vétéran duct tape forever keep ur stick on the ice
Love this show so much good times to sit down and and laugh.
You have to watch the whole shows. Its hysterical what goes on at the Lodge. Love this show. I watched it all again during lockdown.
His nephew Harold. Priceless.
I always loved Handyman Corner's tagline...
"And remember, if a woman doesn't find you handsome, she should find you handy."
A motto to live by.