Celebrating Catherine O'Hara

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Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Paul and Amy sit down to celebrate the incomparable life and career of Catherine O’Hara, whose brilliance shaped comedy for more than five decades. From her fearless work on SCTV to iconic turns in Beetlejuice, Home Alone, and her late-career renaissance on Schitt’s Creek, they reflect on her unmatched versatility, emotional precision, and the indelible characters that made her one of a kind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm sorry.
0:02.0	No! No, no, no, no way!
0:04.0	This is Christmas!
0:05.0	The season of perpetual hope!
0:08.0	And I don't care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike!
0:10.0	If it cost me everything I owned, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself,
0:16.0	I am going to get home to my son.
0:19.0	Oh, my son, is the late, great Catherine O'Hara, and I have to say, Amy, doing these episodes
0:33.6	is always a double-edged sword because I want to talk about the greatness of these people that we have lost,
0:40.5	but this is so incredibly sad.
0:42.6	We feel like this past year, we said this just recently in the Rob Reiner episode.
0:46.9	We have lost some amazing people before their time that have had such an impact, especially on my life. I'm just, this Catherine
0:57.0	O'Hara death has really, really been upsetting. And I kind of, it feels like I've lost somebody in my
1:04.8	own family in a weird way. I love that you said that because Catherine O'Hara definitely feels like a person
1:09.5	that I grew up with that I saw as my wacky, strange mom.
1:15.5	Does that make sense?
1:16.1	Yes.
1:16.5	I mean, she had this 50-year career that really spans every medium, right?
1:23.5	And every emotion.
1:25.2	She is a mom.
1:33.2	She is like one of the great sketch comedians of our time and this like later career renaissance where she is still one of the funniest people in a show
1:39.5	has just like she's affected everyone, every single person.
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