Candy's best work was undoubtedly his stint at SCTV which might be the funniest tv comedy ever. Candy should be judged by that work instead of his lame film roles. With SCTV, Candy's output was some of the most hilarious bits ever to appear on tv.
Uncle Buck was a cute movie. Some of his other film stuff was okay but his SCTV stuff was a riot.
The hapless, phony, fawning William B. William (Ed McMahon) character who is contantly humiliated as the sidekick.
Johnny LaRue the abusive restaurant critic. Yorgy the Kazak who drinks from car batteries for booze and other weird characters. So funny. SCTV was great because they did not have the ego of Sat Night Live.
He also seemed like a decent guy.