{"id":1458,"date":"2014-05-10T17:53:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T22:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2014-05-10T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T22:54:03","slug":"take-off-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"Take Off, eh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and Doug McKenzie, aka Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, are<br \/>\ncomedic icons of the highest variety.<br \/>\nThe back story on these two is a really interesting read.<br \/>\nRick was a reluctant entry into the weird and wacky world<br \/>\nof comedy, he was more of a writer than a performer, and Dave<br \/>\nwas the brother of Ian Thomas, Canadian pop star of the 70s,<br \/>\nand was also a writer and performer, acting with The Second<br \/>\nCity Comedy Troupe during that same period.<br \/>\nBoth went on to become very famous as the McKenzie brothers<br \/>\nfor SCTV, the parody television network that hilariously<br \/>\ngraced our airwaves back in the 80s, and also wrote for<br \/>\nthat series as well as many other humorous endeavors&#8230;<br \/>\nGhost Busters, Strange Brew, Stripes, Little Shop of Horrors,<br \/>\nSpace Balls and so many more if would make your head spin.<br \/>\nHere is a fan tribute piece for a track from their hit comedy<br \/>\nrecording The Great White North, starring Geddy Lee, who also<br \/>\nhappens to be a boyhood friend of Rick&#8230;Take Off!<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzw54PSrEyg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and Doug McKenzie, aka Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, are comedic icons of the highest variety. The back story on these two is a really interesting read. Rick was a reluctant entry into the weird and wacky world of comedy, he was more of a writer than a performer, and Dave was the brother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}