Rick Moranis
Rick Moranis
Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranisis a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and songwriter. He came to prominence in the sketch comedy series Second City Televisionin the 1980s and later appeared in several Hollywood films, including Strange Brew, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Parenthood, My Blue Heaven, and The Flintstones...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 April 1953
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.
I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.
There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies.
The music is pretty simple: It's, you know, it's country music. There's a couple of melodies that are okay, I guess.
I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.
The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.
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.
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.
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
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.
I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.