A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
First, let me say that I have nothing but fond memories of the show. I had a blast. I had to pinch myself in the morning. I could not believe I was working with those people. I couldn't believe I was getting paid to do that stuff. It was one of the great periods of my career for me, if not the best.
I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.
I like the intimacy of live community radio. The news comes on, the weather comes on, and the business updates are right there.
I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.
I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.
I think on one side, people who know me are surprised that I would call this thing a country album instead of a comedy album.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
I'm a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies.
I've always been bad at planning things.
I've never lost my taste for bluegrass.
If you just do what's funny without anybody interfering, I think that's the secret. I think that's true of SCTV and, as you say, of Python, and it's probably true of just about any art form.
It's hard to improvise that kind of stuff, whereas the McKenzies are easy to improvise, because it's the two of us, and the material is pretty basic.
It's just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the '80s. Folks who know me think it's hilarious.
My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
Then, there are people who only know me as an actor, which is not really what I am.
There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.
Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.
Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.
What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.
Rick Moranis was on the cover of the first issue of Disney Adventures in 1990.
Rick Moranis was originally cast in Daniel Stern's part in the movie City Slickers. However, Rick had to pull out when his wife became ill, eventually succumbing to cancer.
Rick Moranis' wife Anne died of cancer in 1991. They have two children together.
Rick Moranis was originally cast to play the janitor in The Breakfast Club but he later declined the role.
Rick Moranis portrayed many celebrities on SCTV including David Brinkley, Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin, Woody Allen, Richard Dreyfuss, Al Waxman, George Carlin, Neil Young, Anson Williams, Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, Jim Bakker, Brent Musburger, Henry Moore, Phil Silvers, John Denver, and the voice of Gordon Lightfoot.
Rick Moranis is 5'4" tall.
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