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, ...

If there’s a scene that best encapsulates the tragically abbreviated career of John Candy, it’s not necessarily from his time on the sketch-comedy series “SCTV” or from movies like “Stripes” or “Uncle ...

An interview with Bill Murray opens “John Candy: I Like Me,” director Colin Hanks’ formulaic but richly enjoyable documentary about the late, great Canadian comedic actor. Murray apologizes for having ...

Candy died in 1994 at age 43. Now, a new Amazon Prime documentary does a fine job of profiling a gifted entertainer who was also, by all accounts, a very sweet human being. This is FRESH AIR. John ...