What a difference a day makes. It took less than 24 hours for John Candy to film his entire role in Home Alone. In the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me, the film’s director recalls wanting The ...

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, ...

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 ...