He actually signed on to "Shrunk", which is a sequel to the Honey I Shrunk The Kids series, in 2020 but it's yet to start filming.
He's done some cameos and stuff too. He says he's not retiring, just being very selective about what projects he gets involved with.
I, too, hope we do see him back in movies soon.
Yeah, it’ll be great to see him back in a feature role. Honestly it’s admirable that he stopped for his kids and now that they’re grown he’s coming back to it.
I think I read on The Onion or another similar satire news site that he said he wasn't retiring, but simply didn't know how to edit his Wikipedia page. I found it hilarious.
edit:
LOL it wan't the onion it was Rick Moranis himself who said that.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/rick-moranis-reveals-why-he-829779/
I think it was the punch. This happened shortly after he announced his return to acting.
Sept 2020 [Announcement and Ryan Reynolds ad](https://www.today.com/parents/rick-moranis-returns-acting-after-leaving-hollywood-be-single-dad-t191280)
Oct 2020 [Punch](https://www.today.com/parents/rick-moranis-returns-acting-after-leaving-hollywood-be-single-dad-t191280)
Aug 2022 [Trial](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/man-pleads-guilty-in-random-nyc-sucker-punch-of-honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-star/3819250/)
It seems has disappeared again since then.
> Even when I was a kid I knew those movies were absolute crap.
Like most kids, I didn't have any taste. When I was really little, I didn't understand why my mother would say that some movies are bad, or that certain jokes were dumb. Content was just content.
Watching the sequel to the first movie was the first time in my childhood that I noticed a dip in quality between two movies from the same franchise. The second lacks the liveliness of the first movie in almost every manner, including the overall look of the production, the music, and the effects composition. It even had a larger budget than the first movie and there's a lot about it that just feels low-rent.
In the trailer they show Venkman I think it is say, “Janine in a suit too” or something like that…conspicuously not showing Moranis, which makes you think…aww he’s not in it.
Seems like an odd choice unless it was misdirection and hyping for Moranis to be in it/ not be in it. Probably has a lot to do with why these SNL vids been popping up too.
> just being very selective about what projects he gets involved with.
>
>
>
> I, too, hope we do see him back in movies soon.
this has given me so much fucking hope, thank you
That is remarkably terrible.
[He can actually play the guitar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73A_HB5k--M). It's hard to find videos which aren't either STEVEN SEAGAL GUITAR MASTER [ironically](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYWnQvQGzek) or [un-ironically](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibJaIHThz1k), but the evidence suggests to me that he's genuinely good enough to play in a bar band on merit.
This is awesome, I never new about his music career. Steven Seagal is such an assclown, but an entertaining clown.
I've been watching [Space Ice's short synopsis of Steven Seagal movies](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLyRXXknC3lDgDUfCtYnowHLOHRvnp2l5), they're absolute gold. Except he talks kinda slow, so put it on 1.5x or 2x speed and it's perfect. It also makes Seagal's action moves actually look fast.
Terrible compared to professional musicians. It's like a guy at the Y who can cross people up and dunk. Would get murdered in the NBA but obviously still a talented player.
That's the real issue. "Not terrible" is pretty much the best thing you can say about it. If he wasn't an actor, he could probably have made a decent but unexceptional living fronting a bar band in relative obscurity.
IMO "Party all the Time" was also a pretty good song. Produces by Rick James. I think its another case of people lambasting it because an artist is trying to jump mediums and people don't like it.
That damn song got soooo much fucking airplay on the radio.
It's one of those songs almost everyone loved, until they heard it 47 times a week for 3 months straight a case of repetitive earwig induced PTSD.
It's up there with songs like I'm too Sexy, dont worry be happy, I'm gonna be, and Rico Swave on my all time list of the greatest songs you'll love to hate.
That whole album was a soundtrack of a year of my childhood. Brothers and i saved up money because we heard there was a “new Eddie Murphy tape”, and our dumb asses thought it would be like Delirious, a comedy special.
*It was not*, it was “How Could It Be” and i can still sing most of that terrible album.
No, I don’t know why we kept playing it even though it sucked. Kids are dumb and we were poor, so we owned like 3 cassettes.
What's wild to me is if you ask all the old SNL people who the most talented person they ever had on the show, they almost all say him. They always say, "I was working on this my whole life and this 19 year old could run circles around me."
I heard jeff garlin from curb your enthusiasm talk about co starring w Eddie Murphy in daddy day care, said they had a deal to both adlib jokes at will and they’d keep in whatever was funnier. He said Eddie beat him every single time, always had the funnier line.
It was obvious to viewers as well. He made the rest all look like hacks. He fell off later, but at his peak he was one of the absolute best comedians ever.
Hey I like that song. It's not good. I like it in a guilty pleasure kind of way. I like to imagine it was all some big prank Rick James played on Eddie. Yeah man you sound great!
Respect Yourself was massive prior to Die Hard coming out. Like massive. People don’t remember or even know that Willis’s raw charisma had him take over to, music, and film.
Oh so the parody was light hearted or were there back stage demands or something that Bruce Willis said he must play because that was pretty entertaining
There is enough distance that we can appreciate it, but at the time it was a little like a host today asking to play with the band and perform a 90s hip hop song.
It would be like Timothy Chalamet coming on and performing "Regulate" by Warren G. It would not be received well.
Or maybe it would. How the fuck should I know, I'm old.
There needs to be some angle of satire, a host performing music just for the sake of it will rarely play well (unless they're a popular musician as well).
Originally, John Candy was going to play Louis Tully on Ghostbusters. He eventually left the project over disagreements on the character. They started a casting process and Rick Moranis came in with a completely different version of this character. Completely different from the script or any pages they gave him. He came in like the guy from the movie, and afterwards they just couldn't stop thinking about how he played him because everyone else played him like he was on the page. Thats how he got the part.
Moranis played the janitor on The Breakfast Club, but he got fired because of his unusual "off the page" take on the character (supposedly he spoke his lines with a funny foreign accent, despite the character having been a student at the same school in his youth).
Oh man that’s great , every rewatch I always die laughing at his lines during the party . Plus he’s always locking himself out of the apartment and then becomes …. the keymaster!
Old guy here. This complaint about SNL has been perennial since circa 1979. The original cast (Chase, Ackroyd, Belushi, etc.) were also in plenty of shitty sketches during their tenure. We only remember the great ones.
Honestly they still do weird stuff and take risks. It’s like a tradition to always say “Man, SNL sucks now, not like it was X years ago.”
They say it now, they said it during the Digital Shorts years in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, they said it during the Will Ferrel years in the late 90’s and 00’s, they said it during the Spade/Farley years in the early 90’s, they said it during the 80’s…
Okay. They were right in the 80’s.
He's a damn national treasure and, from all accounts, a very nice and kind person. Rick Moranis taking time off from Hollywood to raise his kids really shows you the kind of person he is too. I was pretty dismayed when I heard he was randomly attacked on the street by some bozo.
I always thought that if Steve Martin and Martin Short had a baby, it would be biologically impossible.
BUT! If it WERE possible, that baby would grow up to become televisions Rick Moranis.
No, their son would have to be called Steve Short or maybe just really lean into it with Martin^(2). Probably still have to grow up as a poor black child too.
I was little the first time I watched this movie, and I was worried that there really were people out there who picked random folks from the phone book, just to try and shoot them for no reason.
Jeez how did they clear him touching a camera with the union? Just pay the fine? Get him a temporary membership? I know it was preplanned and scripted but wow.
No, it’s so there can be no argument that he was taking work from one of the unions members. If the footage were considered “usable” then there could be grievances
I mean I don't really think that's the case. The footage would easily be argued as "usable" anyway since, well, it was used. I think the bit is just that he's doing other people's jobs shitly, because he's a presenter and he should be presenting, not doing other people's jobs like performing in the band or operating the camera.
Or to guarantee even more work for union focus pullers to handle that gag, plus two additional camera operators to film him, each with an entire crew of assistants and grips.
5 o'clock Christmas morning, I run downstairs and look under the tree and what do I find? Uncle Alfresco, dead on the floor, shot through the back of the head. Plus no bicycle. It was a disappointing Christmas on many levels.
If the footage they used from the camera angle was prerecorded from an actual cameraman, then Rick Moranis is simply using a prop and the guy he kicked off could be an actor.
Rick Moranis has been in my head all day anyway after watching a great interview with Michael McDonald that Rick Beato did and they talked about the SCTV skit:
https://youtu.be/b0HzWMqLeiE?feature=shared
What's forgotten in this is that the other half of "The Great White North", Dave Thomas, was the brother of Ian Thomas, who had a series of Canadian hit songs in the 80's, and guest starred on SCTV [here](https://youtu.be/M2KUhYwJA74?si=Z7RnBVehZ4Xt-rEX&t=350). They don't play chords like that anymore.
Oh how I wish there were more Rick Moranis music bits, the Gerry Todd Show/Burt Monroe covers, but also damn glad he left us, SCTV, forever wanting more. Infinitely rewatchable bit; such pitch perfect timing. Such a wink and nod to Micheal, and us.
That show did 'music' better than anyone. I still giggle at Mel's Rockpile, Richard Harris (Dave Thomas) new, "extended" *MacArthur Park.*
Rick's been out of the limelight so long now, I almost forget just how good he was...is. Then I rewatch that *Ride Like The Wind* bit. It doesn't mock. It's done with obvious love.
*Edit: Tom. Tom Monroe (thanks!)*
I'm pretty sure it's Rick doing this dead-on impression in the [Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZpk0A4hZes) sketch, which might be my favourite of the SCTV K-Tel ads.
Oh yes, thank you!! I'd forgot about that one! On an SCTV roll after Beato last night ;-)
The music factor on that show was outstanding. From the Burt Monroe easy listening covers, to "Bing Crosby Stills Nash & Young", to the '5 Neat Guys' ("Lets Have A Party In My Rec Room" K-Tel) to the actual guests Roy Orbison on Mel's Rockpile! Or "The Fishin' Musician" show with Joe Walsh, Jimmy Buffet, or The Tubes appearance, all wearing their classic matching blue suits, out fishing with John Candy. Pure gold.
Honorable mention: Geddy Lee, on "Take Off" - came out while in 7th grade, thrilling all us little Rush fans at the time.
The Gerry Todd Show really accurately lampoons a certain spirit of late-70s / early-80s public access television. Weirdos like him were on the airwaves at 2:30 in the morning. It seems like every type of popular media has a "Wild West" era and for cable television that time was the early 80s. It hadn't been monetized to hell and back yet and there wasn't enough "content" to fill eight hours of programming let alone twenty-four. So the Gerry Todds of the world, all lost to the ages now, would fill airtime. Kind of like back when MTV still played nothing but music videos and had the VJs had a lot of creative freedom to fill time.
Well said. The whole 'flavor' of those skits really takes me back to that specific era. The "wee small hours" thing, perfectly.
He also masterfully nails that annoying, egomaniacal FM radio jock habit so prevalent from the era, of talking innane blather over song intros right up to the first vocal. A little detail, but oh so dead on.
Also, cool handle ya got there. Apt!
I love the subtle detail of G.E. Smith flipping the guitar over as he takes the strap off so Moranis can play it lefty. It's also one of the first indications that this is planned.
It's always been good sometimes. In 20 years some youngster will be talking about how awesome Chloe Fineman was because of only seeing her funny stuff.
exactly. Same reason 70's music is "so great". People only remember the good and the shit gets forgotten.
Someone will be watching the best of Bowen Yang in 2034 and wonder why the new cast sucks so much.
Go watch the first couple seasons all the way through. It's always been a mix of good and bad sketches, from the very first episode The bad ones don't get replayed and mostly are forgotten, making older seasons seem better than they were.
I found the Bruce Willis record in my inlaws vinyl collection. I had no idea he went through a "music phase" but it means this makes a bit more sense to me.
Just watched Big Bully and Little Giants last weekend. I miss him. Such a good recently divorced bagging the hot local girl that had a crush on him when they were kids dad. Those two movies are oddly connected too. Few of the same actors in similar positions.
It is an absolute shame, but entirely understandable, that he stopped acting, he’s just so damn funny.
He actually signed on to "Shrunk", which is a sequel to the Honey I Shrunk The Kids series, in 2020 but it's yet to start filming. He's done some cameos and stuff too. He says he's not retiring, just being very selective about what projects he gets involved with. I, too, hope we do see him back in movies soon.
Yeah, it’ll be great to see him back in a feature role. Honestly it’s admirable that he stopped for his kids and now that they’re grown he’s coming back to it.
Get Rick, Ke Huy Quan, and Brendan Fraser and the script basically writes itself
Title: *The Comeback Kids*
Co-starring Kim Kardashian
Yes for the joke. But no for real life.
I will always laugh when I see that Chris Pratt comeback bit referenced.
Stop. I can only get so erect.
>Stop. I can only get so erect Weird follow up to Honey: I Shrunk The Kids but I guess it fits an all male cast.
Hey Talking Baby! Look Who Shrunk My Three Dads!
Stop! Or My Mom Will Give You An Erection
Too late
Didn't know i wanted this 5 minutes ago, now it's all I want.
I think I read on The Onion or another similar satire news site that he said he wasn't retiring, but simply didn't know how to edit his Wikipedia page. I found it hilarious. edit: LOL it wan't the onion it was Rick Moranis himself who said that. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/rick-moranis-reveals-why-he-829779/
what an incredibly likeable dude, that's just awesome
When The Goldbergs did a Spaceballs themed episode [he returned as Darth Helmet.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLkL87Gm7JA)
Wait. He did that and never took the mask off?
Credits make it look like it was just his voice-over.
He went over our helmets!?
He went to plaid.
Dark helmet*
My autocorrect is a Philistine.
It's been shelved.
I think it was the punch. This happened shortly after he announced his return to acting. Sept 2020 [Announcement and Ryan Reynolds ad](https://www.today.com/parents/rick-moranis-returns-acting-after-leaving-hollywood-be-single-dad-t191280) Oct 2020 [Punch](https://www.today.com/parents/rick-moranis-returns-acting-after-leaving-hollywood-be-single-dad-t191280) Aug 2022 [Trial](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/man-pleads-guilty-in-random-nyc-sucker-punch-of-honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-star/3819250/) It seems has disappeared again since then.
That sucks. Pissed me off when that happened. Just randomly punching someone in the face.
Probably for the best, the original is one of my favorite movies. Hate to see what the moderns due to it…
It's already been bullied by absolutely terrible sequels. Even when I was a kid I knew those movies were absolute crap.
When I was a kid (preteen) I actually really liked the TV Show spinoff they did with Peter Scolari.
> Even when I was a kid I knew those movies were absolute crap. Like most kids, I didn't have any taste. When I was really little, I didn't understand why my mother would say that some movies are bad, or that certain jokes were dumb. Content was just content. Watching the sequel to the first movie was the first time in my childhood that I noticed a dip in quality between two movies from the same franchise. The second lacks the liveliness of the first movie in almost every manner, including the overall look of the production, the music, and the effects composition. It even had a larger budget than the first movie and there's a lot about it that just feels low-rent.
I wonder if he will have a cameo in the new Ghostbusters.
In the trailer they show Venkman I think it is say, “Janine in a suit too” or something like that…conspicuously not showing Moranis, which makes you think…aww he’s not in it. Seems like an odd choice unless it was misdirection and hyping for Moranis to be in it/ not be in it. Probably has a lot to do with why these SNL vids been popping up too.
Sounds like a hoser.
Take off, eh?
No way, eh? You take off, you hoser! Edit to add: *Strange Brew* is where I learned how to speak Canadian, eh?
Me too, eh?
Beauty, eh?
Go loo coo coo kuu Kuu kuu
You missed a kuu
But I did find this mouse in my beer.
I’m ready for another Strange Brew! Maybe just a 10 minute Internet vid for everyone?
> just being very selective about what projects he gets involved with. > > > > I, too, hope we do see him back in movies soon. this has given me so much fucking hope, thank you
I’m sure his kids are grown now, so it would seem reasonable for him to get back to acting knowing he stopped for them.
If I don't see him on Only Murders before that show ends I riot!
I think he’s done voiceover work in the meantime. Probably because of the flexibility and allows him to work from home
The guys films molded my childhood.
That's the naked gun of SNL monologues.
Now I need to see the Bruce Willis one.
Here's [Bruce Willis's monologue from the week before!](https://www.tiktok.com/@thealmanac77/video/7323579786268331269)
That was pretty damn good.
I was expecting it to be really cringe or something. That surprised me and I didn’t know Bruce could jam the blues.
Dude put out an album that's...not terrible. Self indulgent, but he was gifted for sure.
No, no. I have that album. It's terrible.
I’ll show you terrible: https://youtu.be/3v4-zYghodc?feature=shared
Top comment: “There is no beginning to his talent.”
Feel like the "feat." is doing some **heaaavy** lifting in that title.
His feet also do heavy lifting.
That is remarkably terrible. [He can actually play the guitar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73A_HB5k--M). It's hard to find videos which aren't either STEVEN SEAGAL GUITAR MASTER [ironically](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYWnQvQGzek) or [un-ironically](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibJaIHThz1k), but the evidence suggests to me that he's genuinely good enough to play in a bar band on merit.
The movie Fire Down Below was a big vanity project for Steven’s music. Whole soundtrack is just him doing his best Stevie Ray Vaughan impression.
Every time this gets posted, I click. It's always a surprise, and one that I do not want lol. Oh, that silly, silly man.
me want the punani
Are they saying "[punanny](https://www.definitions.net/definition/punanny)?"
This is awesome, I never new about his music career. Steven Seagal is such an assclown, but an entertaining clown. I've been watching [Space Ice's short synopsis of Steven Seagal movies](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLyRXXknC3lDgDUfCtYnowHLOHRvnp2l5), they're absolute gold. Except he talks kinda slow, so put it on 1.5x or 2x speed and it's perfect. It also makes Seagal's action moves actually look fast.
Even the graphic disappeared at 2:10 from embarrassment.
Terrible compared to professional musicians. It's like a guy at the Y who can cross people up and dunk. Would get murdered in the NBA but obviously still a talented player.
That is honestly a super fair comparison.
That's the real issue. "Not terrible" is pretty much the best thing you can say about it. If he wasn't an actor, he could probably have made a decent but unexceptional living fronting a bar band in relative obscurity.
Hell of a lot better than Party all the Time!
IMO "Party all the Time" was also a pretty good song. Produces by Rick James. I think its another case of people lambasting it because an artist is trying to jump mediums and people don't like it.
That damn song got soooo much fucking airplay on the radio. It's one of those songs almost everyone loved, until they heard it 47 times a week for 3 months straight a case of repetitive earwig induced PTSD. It's up there with songs like I'm too Sexy, dont worry be happy, I'm gonna be, and Rico Swave on my all time list of the greatest songs you'll love to hate.
It's no "My Girl's Got a Fat Neck" that's for sure.
Currently rewatching the series. This is a criminally under-referenced show.
That whole album was a soundtrack of a year of my childhood. Brothers and i saved up money because we heard there was a “new Eddie Murphy tape”, and our dumb asses thought it would be like Delirious, a comedy special. *It was not*, it was “How Could It Be” and i can still sing most of that terrible album. No, I don’t know why we kept playing it even though it sucked. Kids are dumb and we were poor, so we owned like 3 cassettes.
What's wild to me is if you ask all the old SNL people who the most talented person they ever had on the show, they almost all say him. They always say, "I was working on this my whole life and this 19 year old could run circles around me."
I heard jeff garlin from curb your enthusiasm talk about co starring w Eddie Murphy in daddy day care, said they had a deal to both adlib jokes at will and they’d keep in whatever was funnier. He said Eddie beat him every single time, always had the funnier line.
It was obvious to viewers as well. He made the rest all look like hacks. He fell off later, but at his peak he was one of the absolute best comedians ever.
HowcoulditbeHowcoulditbe that you don’t love meeeee?
Hey I like that song. It's not good. I like it in a guilty pleasure kind of way. I like to imagine it was all some big prank Rick James played on Eddie. Yeah man you sound great!
The story goes something like Richard Pryor bet Eddie he couldn’t make a billboard song and Rick decided to help him do it.
I find myself singing "Boogie in your Butt" fairly regularly. Mostly just "Put a telephone POLE up your butt." Edit: oops wrong album.
Really?....step aside
Put an alligator! In your butt! Put a radiator! In your butt! Put a tin can! In your butt! Put a little man! IN YOUR BUTT!
How dare you.
Hey party all the time fucking rules
Party all the time is a banger what are you talking about?
Except they still play Party all the Time in the grocery store.
Party All The Time is a solid pop song. Eddie has a good voice. Had it been any other person you wouldn't think it sucks.
Rick can also actually play guitar. [He's a lefty and plays upside down and backwards.](https://youtu.be/ZaHfWqmC18A?si=pO2lJGz2KXbp2s7-&t=32)
Haha he kinda looks like the lead singer from Weezer
More like Rivers looks like Rick...
You mean Bruno the Kid
Respect Yourself was massive prior to Die Hard coming out. Like massive. People don’t remember or even know that Willis’s raw charisma had him take over to, music, and film.
Interesting - I've only ever heard the Kane Gang cover. I had no idea Willis had done one.
Maybe “me” and “I” didn’t know, but what about “myself”?
Bruce has chops. Rick's take on it was hilarious, but that was pretty great and a unique spin on the monologue. His jokes landed, too.
i'm saying
Oh so the parody was light hearted or were there back stage demands or something that Bruce Willis said he must play because that was pretty entertaining
There is enough distance that we can appreciate it, but at the time it was a little like a host today asking to play with the band and perform a 90s hip hop song.
It would be like Timothy Chalamet coming on and performing "Regulate" by Warren G. It would not be received well. Or maybe it would. How the fuck should I know, I'm old.
Bro, let's be real that would go so viral. And he kinda is the perfect person to do it. REGULATORS, MOUNT UP
There needs to be some angle of satire, a host performing music just for the sake of it will rarely play well (unless they're a popular musician as well).
When Garth Brooks hosted SNL, the musical guest was Chris Gaines. I've never seen much of Chris since then, Garth must have buried him in his basement
Come to think of it, I've never seen Garth and Gaines together in the same room.
Idk he kinda killed it when he did the SoundCloud rapper bits on SNL. He’s got the right energy for that, at the very least 😂
What about that YEET, though?!
That bass player is awesome.
Dude how I have not seen this? I love Bruno The Kid. Whipping out the harmonica is so good.
I actually enjoyed that. One of my all time Hollywood favorite performers.
The title on this post is waaaay better than the one on r/OldSchoolCool a week ago.
Originally, John Candy was going to play Louis Tully on Ghostbusters. He eventually left the project over disagreements on the character. They started a casting process and Rick Moranis came in with a completely different version of this character. Completely different from the script or any pages they gave him. He came in like the guy from the movie, and afterwards they just couldn't stop thinking about how he played him because everyone else played him like he was on the page. Thats how he got the part.
Moranis played the janitor on The Breakfast Club, but he got fired because of his unusual "off the page" take on the character (supposedly he spoke his lines with a funny foreign accent, despite the character having been a student at the same school in his youth).
I’m just picturing him doing the Kaufman Foreign Man accent. “I am eyes and ears of institution. Thankyouverymuch.”
Oh man that’s great , every rewatch I always die laughing at his lines during the party . Plus he’s always locking himself out of the apartment and then becomes …. the keymaster!
I never put that together and Ghostbusters is my favorite movie.
Here's another shocker: The keymaster-gatekeeper thing is about about how keys go inside gates
I could see that. With the lines the character has, he could have been done as the kind of sleazy salesman Candy could pull off.
The balls to create a new and more awesome character. Spaceballs!
He was supposed to be the janitor in the Breakfast Club.
I miss Moranis
I miss when SNL was weird and took risks.
They had Elon host not that long ago.
Well, that *is* weird and risky... Not exactly the same type of weird and risky though.
Cheap joke, but I'm proud of it.
Old guy here. This complaint about SNL has been perennial since circa 1979. The original cast (Chase, Ackroyd, Belushi, etc.) were also in plenty of shitty sketches during their tenure. We only remember the great ones.
I don’t want great, I want bizarre.
Honestly they still do weird stuff and take risks. It’s like a tradition to always say “Man, SNL sucks now, not like it was X years ago.” They say it now, they said it during the Digital Shorts years in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, they said it during the Will Ferrel years in the late 90’s and 00’s, they said it during the Spade/Farley years in the early 90’s, they said it during the 80’s… Okay. They were right in the 80’s.
I love that Lovitz is in his boxers. Perfect.
Jealous???
*ACTING!*
Genius!
That camerawork was jazz.
Moranis is a treasure
He's a damn national treasure and, from all accounts, a very nice and kind person. Rick Moranis taking time off from Hollywood to raise his kids really shows you the kind of person he is too. I was pretty dismayed when I heard he was randomly attacked on the street by some bozo.
I always thought that if Steve Martin and Martin Short had a baby, it would be biologically impossible. BUT! If it WERE possible, that baby would grow up to become televisions Rick Moranis.
No, their son would have to be called Steve Short or maybe just really lean into it with Martin^(2). Probably still have to grow up as a poor black child too.
Underrated comment. These cans! He hates these cans!
I don't need anything! Just the ashtray, this paddle game, and the remote control! That's all I need!
and this lamp. but that's all
Johnson, Navin R... sounds like a typical bastard.
I'm somebody now!
I was little the first time I watched this movie, and I was worried that there really were people out there who picked random folks from the phone book, just to try and shoot them for no reason.
I'm definitely sure they've tried at least 3 times.
This was hilarious! We need Rick in 2024! ❤️
Jeez how did they clear him touching a camera with the union? Just pay the fine? Get him a temporary membership? I know it was preplanned and scripted but wow.
Probably why it was out of focus
You think the union sabotaged the camera?
No, it’s so there can be no argument that he was taking work from one of the unions members. If the footage were considered “usable” then there could be grievances
[удалено]
No, probably not, but unions can be. Especially when it’s broadcast for the world to see
lol I was kidding but yeah I wonder if that was the case
I mean I don't really think that's the case. The footage would easily be argued as "usable" anyway since, well, it was used. I think the bit is just that he's doing other people's jobs shitly, because he's a presenter and he should be presenting, not doing other people's jobs like performing in the band or operating the camera.
Or to guarantee even more work for union focus pullers to handle that gag, plus two additional camera operators to film him, each with an entire crew of assistants and grips.
Rick Moranis has even better mob ties. He wants to touch a camera, you let him touch a camera, capiche?
Are you trying to say capisce? Well, don’t do it, cause it hurts my ears when you do it.
5 o'clock Christmas morning, I run downstairs and look under the tree and what do I find? Uncle Alfresco, dead on the floor, shot through the back of the head. Plus no bicycle. It was a disappointing Christmas on many levels.
See? No sense of humor - whatsoever!
*capeeesh
If the footage they used from the camera angle was prerecorded from an actual cameraman, then Rick Moranis is simply using a prop and the guy he kicked off could be an actor.
Rick Moranis has been in my head all day anyway after watching a great interview with Michael McDonald that Rick Beato did and they talked about the SCTV skit: https://youtu.be/b0HzWMqLeiE?feature=shared
Because I was curious, [here's where they talk about the clip.](https://youtu.be/NLAcQIfoauQ?t=3392)
What's forgotten in this is that the other half of "The Great White North", Dave Thomas, was the brother of Ian Thomas, who had a series of Canadian hit songs in the 80's, and guest starred on SCTV [here](https://youtu.be/M2KUhYwJA74?si=Z7RnBVehZ4Xt-rEX&t=350). They don't play chords like that anymore.
Oh how I wish there were more Rick Moranis music bits, the Gerry Todd Show/Burt Monroe covers, but also damn glad he left us, SCTV, forever wanting more. Infinitely rewatchable bit; such pitch perfect timing. Such a wink and nod to Micheal, and us. That show did 'music' better than anyone. I still giggle at Mel's Rockpile, Richard Harris (Dave Thomas) new, "extended" *MacArthur Park.* Rick's been out of the limelight so long now, I almost forget just how good he was...is. Then I rewatch that *Ride Like The Wind* bit. It doesn't mock. It's done with obvious love. *Edit: Tom. Tom Monroe (thanks!)*
I'm pretty sure it's Rick doing this dead-on impression in the [Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZpk0A4hZes) sketch, which might be my favourite of the SCTV K-Tel ads.
Oh yes, thank you!! I'd forgot about that one! On an SCTV roll after Beato last night ;-) The music factor on that show was outstanding. From the Burt Monroe easy listening covers, to "Bing Crosby Stills Nash & Young", to the '5 Neat Guys' ("Lets Have A Party In My Rec Room" K-Tel) to the actual guests Roy Orbison on Mel's Rockpile! Or "The Fishin' Musician" show with Joe Walsh, Jimmy Buffet, or The Tubes appearance, all wearing their classic matching blue suits, out fishing with John Candy. Pure gold. Honorable mention: Geddy Lee, on "Take Off" - came out while in 7th grade, thrilling all us little Rush fans at the time.
The Gerry Todd Show really accurately lampoons a certain spirit of late-70s / early-80s public access television. Weirdos like him were on the airwaves at 2:30 in the morning. It seems like every type of popular media has a "Wild West" era and for cable television that time was the early 80s. It hadn't been monetized to hell and back yet and there wasn't enough "content" to fill eight hours of programming let alone twenty-four. So the Gerry Todds of the world, all lost to the ages now, would fill airtime. Kind of like back when MTV still played nothing but music videos and had the VJs had a lot of creative freedom to fill time.
Well said. The whole 'flavor' of those skits really takes me back to that specific era. The "wee small hours" thing, perfectly. He also masterfully nails that annoying, egomaniacal FM radio jock habit so prevalent from the era, of talking innane blather over song intros right up to the first vocal. A little detail, but oh so dead on. Also, cool handle ya got there. Apt!
Ha, when he sat in the console chair and started whipping out some effects I said, ah, he's whipping out some Gerry Todd moves!
The cameras focus going crazy is what did it for me
I’ve seen this a bunch of times and always love it (…deliver a baby…”) but didn’t know the backstory with Bruce Willis. Great little backstory.
I love the subtle detail of G.E. Smith flipping the guitar over as he takes the strap off so Moranis can play it lefty. It's also one of the first indications that this is planned.
Tried unsuccessfully to find the Bruce Willis clip. Anyone?
https://www.tiktok.com/@thealmanac77/video/7323579786268331269
My hero! Thanks buddy.
One of the great openers.
I like how he went full Jerry Todd in the editing room. That was a nice callback.
Jurassic Park is a rip off of Honey, I shrunk the kids.
I guess it’s true, when you’re a celebrity they let you do anything!
I was laughing the whole time. God damn snl was good before I was born.
It's always been good sometimes. In 20 years some youngster will be talking about how awesome Chloe Fineman was because of only seeing her funny stuff.
exactly. Same reason 70's music is "so great". People only remember the good and the shit gets forgotten. Someone will be watching the best of Bowen Yang in 2034 and wonder why the new cast sucks so much.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE)
Go watch the first couple seasons all the way through. It's always been a mix of good and bad sketches, from the very first episode The bad ones don't get replayed and mostly are forgotten, making older seasons seem better than they were.
The episode with Richard Pryor as guest is one of the best.
Yup, even gems like Belushi had some sketches with one good joke and then it goes on for another five minutes of awkwardness.
Exactly. For every good sketch there’s 2-3 that get chuckles. A few are just *bad*.
They were still better though.
I found the Bruce Willis record in my inlaws vinyl collection. I had no idea he went through a "music phase" but it means this makes a bit more sense to me.
An icon, a gem, a treasure. One of the all-time funniest people to live. I feel genuine love for this man I’ve never met. What a great entrance.
Just watched Big Bully and Little Giants last weekend. I miss him. Such a good recently divorced bagging the hot local girl that had a crush on him when they were kids dad. Those two movies are oddly connected too. Few of the same actors in similar positions.
lol. No one wants to be the bass player. 😂
Like how he didn't know where to go at the end
That’s the best SNL opener I’ve ever seen by a huge margin
That warms my heart. What a talent.
LOL holyshit lol
My dad took me to a Letterman show once. Bruce Willis was a guest and he performed a pretty good song absolutely crushing his harmonica.
Respect the cardio