Making Teen Movie Classics & Tales Of The Second City with John Kapelos

We welcome actor John Kapelos, whose unforgettable turns in The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles enshrine him as a John Hughes Universe fixture. From Second City to Shermer High, John weighs in on comedy, character & The Hughes legacy. John takes us back to his youth in London, Ontario, Canada, and his first big leap into show business as a member of Second City Chicago, from where he toured for over three years and studied under the mentorship of John Candy: John Kapelos shares his thoughts on the recent Candy documentary and the warmth and sensitivity of the icon who showed him the way. He shares the magic of an electric comedy scene which included Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Dave Thomas and Catherine O'Hara, and how the Chicago and Toronto improv cultures differed. We also get his perspective on the sexism which permeated the comedy scene. We dive into John’s transition from stage to screen, his admiration for John Hughes’ ability to capture the voices of teenagers, and we get Breakfast Club behind-the-scenes intrigue. How did John manage to enrage Emilio Estevez? And how did he ultimately receive absolution from Martin Sheen on the set of The West Wing? It’s all here. And in a thrilling round of IMDB Roulette, we learn why Desperate Housewives was a piece of (cup)cake and how John sustained an injury on the set of Seinfeld, attempting to not crack up at Kramer! In current media-- Weezy: Netflix Limited Series, Death By Lightning Fritz: Netflix Movie, A House Of Dynamite Path Points of Interest: John Kapelos on Wikipedia John Kapelos on IMDB John Kapelos on Instagram John Kapelos on Facebook Too Hip for the Room Death By Lightning A House Of Dynamite

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Making Teen Movie Classics & Tales Of The Second City with John Kapelos is an episode from Media Path Podcast by Fritz Coleman & Louise Palanker.

This episode is 63:31 long.

This episode was published on Nov 13, 2025.

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