When I first saw the John Candy: I Like Me trailer, I knew this documentary about one of the funniest and warmest actors of all time would hit me in the feels. I wasn’t wrong, as the 2025 movie ...

Moriarty took a lot of inspiration from Candy and the film, and he drew from Pete’s own personality as well. Not only did it ...

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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The comedian often spoke of being doomed to the same fate of his father, who died at 35. What he and my father felt wasn't ...

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

The late John Candy passed away three years before I arrived on this earth at Atlanta, Georgia’s Northside Hospital. So, for someone coming in on the first wave of Gen Z, it would make sense that the ...

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 ...

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I had a chance to speak to Candy's children, Jennifer and Christopher, ahead of the documentary's release, and asked about which of his iconic roles reminded them the most of who he was in real life.