Harold Ramis- Interview (National Lampoon's Vacation) 1983 [Reelin' In The Years Archives] 

A wonderful director, writor, and actor, one of the defining voices in comedy in the 80s. We'll miss you Harold!

I find it interesting to see how Harold’s passions change when it comes to making films. In this interview he was mainly a comedy person. In this particular interview he says “-film is our medium of comedy, it’s not my passion. You don’t see me making films for the World.” But in interviews later in life he talks about how he grows to be a filmmaker and less of a comedian. Stating in a 2008 interview he doesn’t “like comedy for entertainments sake.” As he grew as a person so did his passion. From lampoon comedy to more philosophical messages. In that same interview he stated how “as I get older I learn life is short, and it gets harder to spend 2 hours in a theater.”

I've always knew Harold was the director of this, but I just was rewatching Vacation and recognized his voice at the end. If you listen, you can hear him as one of the police that say "We're all finished here Mr Wally, you want me to take em downtown and book em?". Pretty cool.

Love him

RIP Harold Ramis😭

Do...... Ray............... EGON

He almost looks like Bill Bixby here.

You really hope that he was kind. It would be great to have a guy make awesome movies and be genuinely decent unlike Woody Allen or Roman Polanski. Everyone says you can separate the art from the artist but I don't believe that. After I watched Chinatown I wanted to off myself.

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Who is the interviewer? I think she’s fantastic!

The interviewer is a flake.