Roman Danylo has a huge career in the world of comedy. He gigs all over the place. He has many videos online. This youtube clip shows his improv chops, working with random audience members.

Howard Stern introduces and comments on one of Roman’s favourite clips of William Shatner - in a recording studio, giving the guy in the booth a hard time for asinine direction, and not letting him off the hook when he tries to back pedal.

This is another of Roman’s favourite Shatner moments - him reciting the lyrics to Elton John’s song Rocket Man like poetry, while copiously smoking, and interaction with video duplicates of himself. Accompanied by synthesized music.

SCTV did six seasons of innovative sketch comedy that have had as lasting an effect as Saturday Night Live. Martin Short plays Ed Grimley in this clip. There’s a higher rez version of this clip on youtube, if you’d like to see it.

Roman’s interview features a clip of David Letterman doing his first show back after the Sept 11th attacks - here’s the clip in full, showing the man in a state of complete sincerity.

Elvis Costello, as Roman pointed out in the interview, is still taking risks, over thirty years into his music career. This song shows his collaboration with Burt Bacharach - an unlikely combination that yielded great music.

Roman Danylo has a huge career improvising, but is just as comfortable in the world of prepared material. Watch him do a great stand-up set at the Halifax Comedy Festival.

Sketch shows endlessly parody game shows, so it’s a pleasure to see it done genuinely well. This sketch also shows off what an all-star cast SCTV had. Eugene Levy makes a great frustrated host.

Before David Letterman went to CBS and a slightly earlier time slot, he’d regularly do bizarre stunts like this one - wearing a velcro suit and interviewing a sales director for velcro, doing various demonstrations. Including jumping into a velcro wall.

Elvis Costello’s got his own TV show -

Spectacle. Here’s a song featuring Diana Krall and Elton John. Guests on other episodes include Levon Helm, Neko Case, Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Bono, The Edge, Sheryl Crow, Lou Reed, Kris Kristofferson and James Taylor.