• Martin Quick and Steve Martin led a touching toast to their former costar Catherine O'Hara at their Austin comedy present on Friday.
• "She has been the best, most good, kindest, sweetest angel that any of us labored with," Quick stated.
• O'Hara died at 71 on Friday following a quick sickness.

Martin Quick and Steve Martin are remembering one in every of their favourite costars.

Following Catherine O'Hara's dying at 71 on Friday, the Solely Murders within the Constructing actors took a second to pay tribute to the late Beetlejuice actress at their comedy present on the Bass Live performance Corridor in Austin.

"Catherine O'Hara I met when she was 18 years of age," Quick stated as he and Martin raised glasses of champagne in entrance of a projected photograph of her. "And all these years later, she has been the best, most good, kindest, sweetest angel that any of us labored with."

Because the viewers erupted into applause, Quick stated, "God bless."

Quick first labored with O'Hara at Toronto's Second Metropolis improv theater within the Nineteen Seventies. The actors beforehand crossed paths when she auditioned for the unique Toronto manufacturing of Godspell, which Quick finally starred in after O'Hara was handed over for a task. "I took this system residence, and I bear in mind kissing his image as a result of I assumed he was so cute," O'Hara later stated of seeing Quick within the play.

O'Hara started her time at Second Metropolis as a waitress earlier than becoming a member of the comedy troupe after Gilda Radner departed for a gig on Saturday Night time Dwell in 1975. Quick joined the group in 1977.

They then carried out alongside their Second Metropolis costars on SCTV, which additionally featured John Sweet, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis, Joe Flaherty, and Andrea Martin. The present aired in varied iterations from 1976 to 1984, with Quick approaching board in its fourth season.

Quick and O'Hara additionally costarred within the animated movies The Addams Household and Frankenweenie, the latter of which reunited O'Hara with two of her Beetlejuice collaborators, director Tim Burton and actress Winona Ryder.

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Martin and O'Hara collaborated on NBC's short-lived The New Present, which Lorne Michaels created throughout his time away from Saturday Night time Dwell in 1984. The comedians guest-starred collectively on a number of episodes of the sketch collection, which additionally featured O'Hara's SCTV colleague Dave Thomas as one in every of its solely common solid members. Martin and O'Hara later costarred in director Gillies MacKinnon's A Easy Twist of Destiny, a 1994 comedy-drama Martin wrote that was loosely primarily based on the 1861 novel Silas Marner by George Eliot. Martin additionally labored with O'Hara's husband, Bo Welch, who served because the manufacturing designer for his 1991 film Grand Canyon.

In a 2020 story about Catherine O'Hara's profession renaissance on the peak of Schitt's Creek's success, Quick recalled the actress stealing the highlight at a small feast with friends Tom Ford and Anjelica Huston. "Anjelica went utterly nonetheless," he recalled of O'Hara's entrance to the gathering. "She stated, 'Oh my God, oh my God, I've bought to fulfill her, I've bought to fulfill her.' It was like Paul McCartney strolling in in 1965."

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O'Hara's dying prompted a lot of tributes from her former costars, together with her lifelong collaborator Levy, who remembered her in a heartfelt statement shared with Entertainment Weekly.

"Phrases appear insufficient to specific the loss I really feel at present," Levy stated. "I had the glory of understanding and dealing with the good Catherine O'Hara for over 50 years. From our beginnings on the Second Metropolis stage, to SCTV, to the films we did with Chris Visitor, to our six wonderful years on Schitt's Creek, I cherished our working relationship, however most of all our friendship. I’ll miss her."

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