He reportedly introduced John Travolta and Kelly Preston while directing them in the Paramount film The Experts. In 1988 Thomas wrote another hour long show for CBS, B Men, which was back ordered, but Thomas took a directing job at Paramount, which caused the network to drop the series. The pilot was produced but did not go to series. Thomas tried his hand at network television hour-long shows in 1986 when he wrote and co-executive produced Steel Collar Man for CBS. Short-lived, this show featured a powerhouse writing staff including Thomas along with Buck Henry, George Meyer, Jack Handey, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Valri Bromfield and Steve Martin. Soon after, he wrote for and acted in The New Show, produced by Lorne Michaels during his hiatus from Saturday Night Live. He then wrote, co-directed, and starred in the Bob & Doug McKenzie feature film Strange Brew. Thomas's first movie was Home to Stay, directed by Delbert Mann, in which Thomas played in a scene with Hollywood legend Henry Fonda. Notable characters on the show include Doug McKenzie of beer-swilling brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie, editorialist Bill Needle, Scottish scone-chef/bluesman Angus Crock, motor-mouthed TV ad announcer Harvey K-Tel, Lowery organist/curio pitchman Tex Boil and the unforgettable 'Cruising Gourmet'. He first achieved fame as a cast member of the Canadian TV comedy series SCTV, joining Godspell castmates Levy, Martin and later Short, plus Rick Moranis, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Catherine O'Hara and others. He was a cast member of the Toronto production of Godspell, along with Victor Garber, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, and Andrea Martin.

After watching a Second City stage show in Toronto, and while suffering from self-described 'boredom' in his advertising work, he auditioned for the Second City troupe and was chosen as a performer. Starting his career as a copywriter at ad agency McCann Erickson in 1974, he became the head writer of the Coca-Cola account in Canada within a year. The family moved back to Dundas, Ontario, in 1961, where Thomas attended Dundas District high school, and later graduated with an honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Thomas attended George Watts and Moorehead elementary schools. The family moved to Durham, North Carolina, where his father attended Duke University and earned a PhD in Philosophy. His younger brother Ian is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Thomas (1926–1996), a medical ethicist from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales who was head of the Philosophy Department at McMaster University, and the author of several books. He is the eldest son of British parents Moreen Duff (Muir), a church organist for thirty years originally from Glasgow, Scotland, and composer of church music, and John E. David William Thomas was born May 20, 1949, in St.

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