John Candy's son Chris Candy opened up about why he was afraid to become an actor like his dad. Chris also reflected on how ...

“That’s the problem when you talk about John,” says Bill Murray in the opening of John Candy: I Like Me, “people don’t really have a lot of negative things to say about him.” One of the worst pop ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fans of the late comedian John Candy are still saddened by his untimely death at the age of 43. The Blues Brothers star was working on the film Wagons East in Durango, Mexico, when he died of a heart ...

Two new documentaries recently dropped on Prime Video, and as a Penn State graduate who loves comedy, they’re both must-see offerings: Saquon, a film about the life and career of Philadelphia Eagles ...

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 ...

Paul Myers was touring Canada as the frontman of the alt-rock band The Gravelberrys when he heard the news about John Candy. It was March 1994, and the band had landed in Whistler, B.C. for a few days ...

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, ...