Lily Tomlin and Rick Moranis

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Photo: Greg GormanRick Moranis on growing up Jewish, Canadian comedy, and quitting showbusinessThis week on Bullseye, Jesse brings you some of his favorite interviews from 2013. The first of which is his conversation with Rick Moranis. You know him from Strange Brew, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Honey I Shrunk the Kids. He is the bespectacled man in argyle socks, who plays nerdy characters with goofy dad jokes. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, it seemed like he was the star of every family friendly comedy to hit the big screen. But, after his wife passed away in 1991, he quit the movie business, to raise his children. The last time he has been seen on screen was 20 years ago, in Honey We Shrunk Ourselves.

Nearly a decade after pretty much signing out of show business, Moranis returned in 2005 with a Grammy-winning album of original music, Agoraphobic Cowboy. In 2013, Moranis released his second album My Mother’s Brisket and Other Love Songs, which is a collection of comedic music inspired by Moranis’s Jewish upbringing in Toronto.

Jesse and Rick talk about his first job selling hockey programs in the nosebleed section, SCTV and the ironic outcome of his famous nose-thumbing at Canadian content laws, and his decision to be a stay-at-home father.

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Lily Tomlin on being someone else… in her own wayLily Tomlin is a comedic actress if there ever was one. She has incredible rang, whether she’s playing a precocious six-year-old on Laugh-In or a pill-popping sixty-six year old on HBO’s Eastbound & Down, Lily inhabits her roles in a way that few performers can. She was nominated for an Oscar for her 1976 performance in Nashville, as well as being awarded the Mark Twain Prize for humor back in 2003.

Back in 2013 when Jesse and Lily spoke, she had just appeared in the Tina Fey led and Paul Weitz directed movie Admission. This was 2 years before a resurgence in her career, which would earn her recognition in Grandma, her first lead in a film in 27 years, and a Golden Globe nomination for the Netflix series Grace and Frankie.

Lily talked to Jesse about shaping her role in Admission, the moment that she decided she wanted to be a professional actor…and yes, a certain YouTube-famous confrontation (link NSFW) with I Heart Huckabees director David O. Russell.

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The Outshot: Chance The Rapper’s Acid RapJesse tells us about Chance The Rapper’s 2013 mixtape Acid Rap.

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