Paul Myers said years later, John Candy saw Mike Myers in a restaurant and stopped to tell him how much he loved the then-new Wayne’s World movie. It’s unclear if Candy realized it was the same kid he ...

A member of that endangered species known as “The Everyman,” Candy's life sometimes read like unsubtle literature.

“That’s the problem when you talk about John,” says Bill Murray in the opening of John Candy: I Like Me, “people don’t really have a lot of negative things to say about him.” One of the worst pop ...

Two new documentaries recently dropped on Prime Video, and as a Penn State graduate who loves comedy, they’re both must-see offerings: Saquon, a film about the life and career of Philadelphia Eagles ...

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, ...

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Paul Myers was touring Canada as the frontman of the alt-rock band The Gravelberrys when he heard the news about John Candy. It was March 1994, and the band had landed in Whistler, B.C. for a few days ...

Many of Candy’s most popular and famous characters have a charm that makes the viewer feel like he’s your own father. “I think he kind of was recreating the relationship that he might not have had ...

John Candy’s son, Chris, said during a recent event promoting the new documentary “John Candy: I Like Me” (via People) that it was “heart-wrenching” to see resurfaced press interviews in the film ...

Fans of John Candy are very happy these days. Not only do we have the new Ryan Reynolds produced documentary film John Candy: I Like Me, available with an Amazon Prime Video subscription, but there’s ...