8 Fascinating Things You Probably Didn’t Know About John Candy

5. There’s a John Candy postage stamp.

The true mark of an entertainment icon is the honorary postage stamp. John Candy made his way onto the Canadian .51 cent stamp in 2006 as part of their “Canadians In Hollywood” series; Fay Wray, Lorne Greene, and Mary Pickford rounded out the series.

6. He was a fan of Gary Larson.

John Candy enjoyed Gary Larson’s The Far Side comic series and was one of many who bought the daily desktop calendars. “Gary Larson’s hysterical. “That’s my daily calendar — The Far Side calendar, it always gives you a nice laugh in the morning.”

7. John Candy launched his own radio show in 1989.

John had his own radio show on Los Angeles station KNX-FM called Radio Kandy. The two-hour top 40 music/comedy radio show featured Second City comics and came into fruition after Candy caught the radio bug from doing a short DJ stint in Canada. Candy was quoted by the Los Angeles Times:

“I love the medium and, since I can’t play an instrument, I can at least play records. Two years ago I did ‘That Radio Show’ for about 100 stations in Canada. They were 90-minute shows that ran weekly through the summer–kind of an oldies rock-and-roll and comedy show.”

8. The man was not one for promoting himself.

Candy might have been a larger than life character on stage and in the movies, but off-camera, he wasn’t always fond of the attention. Even when he had a big movie in theaters, Candy would fight the studio on doing interviews to promote it. According to Mental Floss, in a 1986 interview with the LA Times, he said one reason he didn’t like doing press is that he thought he was kind of a boring guy:

“I think the real reason I hate to do interviews is because I think I’m boring. I just always thought there were more important things to talk about than myself. Also I get nervous. When I did a few interviews several years ago, there were a few things said about me that I was uncomfortable with. I felt I’d put my foot in my mouth. So it’s an awkward situation.”

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