Moranis appeared in the sketch comedy series Second City Television (SCTV) in the 1980s and starred afterward in several Hollywood films, including Strange Brew (1983), Streets of Fire (1984), Ghostbusters (1984) and its sequel Ghostbusters II (1989), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Spaceballs (1987), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, and its 1992 ...

Jan 23, 2023 · SCTV’s Rick Moranis insists that he was actually a huge George Carlin fan. “How could I not be?” he asks in a new oral history of Toronto’s Second City comedy troupe. But that didn’t stop him from taking shots at the master in the early 1980s.

May 7, 2021 · By the time a wave of big screen hits earned Rick Moranis household name status, he had already gained cult immortality in certain sectors of the USA and Canada for his participation in 25...

The dancers included at various times Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis and writers David Flaherty, Dick Blasucci, Doug Steckler, Bob Dolman, Chris Cluess (among others). John McAndrew - another writer who made frequent appearances on …

He joined the Canadian TV series, SCTV (1976), winning an Emmy for writing and portraying the character, Bob McKenzie, which became the basis for the film, Strange Brew (1983), which he co-wrote, co-directed and made his film acting debut.

Rick Moranis is the only regular SCTV performer who never played at Second City. He wrote for CBS radio and television and appeared on TV shows such as 90 Minutes Live and The Alan Hamel Show. His friend, Dave Thomas, asked him to do an SCTV scene with him in 1980 as a replacement for John Candy.

May 10, 2018 · CTV announced today it is joining Netflix to become the exclusive Canadian broadcast partner of the upcoming, yet untitled, SCTV comedy special, which explores the enduring legacy of the iconic, EMMY ® award-winning Canadian series SECOND CITY TELEVISION (SCTV).

Aug 2, 2004 · Moranis granted S&V an exclusive interview to talk about the wonders of SCTV and its pioneering spirit. An abbreviated version of our hour-long chat appeared in the September 2004 issue, but here Rick gets the room to fully expound on things like how downloading is passé, the infamous Michael McDonald sketch, and why he stopped making movies.

Frederick "Rick" Moranis is a former SCTV cast member, whose sketches as such have included comedy partnerships with Dave Thomas, most notably in the "Great White North" sketches.

Actor-comedian Rick Moranis parlayed his turn on the groundbreaking Canadian sketch comedy series "SCTV" (Global/CBC/NBC/Superchannel, 1976-1984) into a decade-long string of starring roles...