Irv: Hi, I'd like to register for the tryouts. Registration Official: What country? Irv: Uh... [clears throat] Jamaica. Registration Official: [smiles] What country? Irv: Jamaica. Registration Official: [stops smiling and enters the information] Huh, what do you know? A Jamaican bobsled team.
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John Candy
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedy actor known mainly for his work in Hollywood films. Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its related Second City Television series, and through his appearances in such comedy films as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, Summer Rental, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle Buck, as well as more dramatic roles in Only the Lonely and JFK. One of his most renowned onscreen performances was as Del Griffith, the loquacious, on-the-move shower-curtain ring salesman in the John Hughes comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles. While filming the Western parody Wagons East!, Candy died of a heart attack in Durango, Mexico, on March 4, 1994, aged 43. His final two films, Wagons East! and Canadian Bacon, are dedicated to his memory. 2Biography 3Early life and career (1950–1980) Candy was born in 1950 in Newmarket, Ontario. The son of Sidney James Candy and Evangeline (Aker) Candy, he was brought up in a working-class Roman Catholic family. Candy's father was of English and Scottish descent, while his mother was of Polish and Ukrainian descent. Candy studied at Neil McNeil Catholic High School, later enrolled in the Centennial Community College to study journalism, and went to McMaster University for higher education. His first film role was a small, uncredited appearance in the 1973 film Class of '4
This is what it's all about, this is whether you win or lose the race, right here in the push start! This is where you're gonna practice, right here, right here in a Volkswagen!
It's not so much the heat, it's the humidity that'll kill you.
Winning a bobsled race is about one thing: the push-start. Now I know you dainty, little track stars think you're fast. Well, heh, let's see how fast you are when you push a six-hundred pound sled. Now a respectable start-time is five-point-seven seconds. If you speed demons can't whip off an even…
All right, Derice. Let me lay out some difficulties for you. Snow: you don't have any. It's nine hundred degrees out there. Time: you don't have any. The Olympics are in three months. And me: you don't have me. As far as I'm concerned, the sport of bobsledding no longer exists. I don't want to do…
Irwin Blitzer: Gentlemen, a bobsled is a simple thing. Man: Yeah, so's a toilet!
Irv: I told the owner of the bar that these guys were mentally disturbed, so he's not going to press any charges. Sanka Coffie: Yeah! Sled god does it again! Irv: Just shut up, Sanka.
Josef Grul: Hey, Jamaica! Watch out for Number Twelve turn. Scary, ja? Derice Bannock: What's his problem? Irv: He's Josef Grul. He's one of the best drivers in the world. Yul Brenner: Yeah, he's one of the biggest ASSHOLES in the world, too.
Oh, yeah, just one little drawback to this delightful winter sport. The high-speed crash. Ooh! That hurt. Always remember, your bones will not break in a bobsled. No, no, no. They shatter.
Come on, Kurt, what you're doing here is wrong, and you know it! Now if this is about you and me, let's lay it all down now. All right, sixteen years ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life: I cheated. I was stupid. I embarrassed myself, I embarrassed my country, my friends, my family, my…
Our Father, who art in Calgary, Bobsled be thy name. Thy kingdom come, gold medals won, on Earth as it is in Turn Seven. With Liberty and Justice for Jamaica and Haile Selassie. Amen.
British Official: We must also be concerned about the potential for embarrassment. Irv: Oh, pardon me. I didn't realize that four black guys in a bobsled could make you blush.
Derice Bannock: Hey, Coach. Irv: Yeah? Derice Bannock: I have to ask you a question. Irv: Sure. Derice Bannock: But you don't have to answer if you don't want to. I mean, I want you to, but if you can't, I understand. Irv: You wanna know why I cheated, right? Derice Bannock: Yes, I do. Irv: That's a…