Question: Which The 'Burbs actor was also a writer and a comedian?
Context: When I Live by the Garden and the Sea is an EP from the Portland, Oregon based, ambient musician Matthew Cooper, under the name Eluvium.  The song "As I Drift Off" opened with an audio fragment from the 1989 film, "The 'Burbs". The 'Burbs is a 1989 American comedy thriller film directed by Joe Dante starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal and Henry Gibson.  The film was written by Dana Olsen, who also has a cameo in the movie.  The film pokes fun at suburban environments and their eccentric dwellers. Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress, writer, and humorist.  Fisher was known for playing Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" films; a role for which she was nominated for three Saturn Awards.  Her other film roles included "Shampoo" (1975), "The Blues Brothers" (1980), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), "The 'Burbs" (1989), "When Harry Met Sally..." (1989), "Soapdish" (1991) and "The Women" (2008 film).  She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances on the television series "30 Rock" and "Catastrophe".  She was posthumously made a Disney Legend in 2017. Richard "Rick" Ducommun (July 3, 1952 – June 12, 2015) was a Canadian actor, comedian and writer who appeared in films and television. Corey Scott Feldman (born July 16, 1971) is an American actor and singer.  He became well known during the 1980s, with roles as a youth in films such as the voice of Young Copper in "The Fox and the Hound" (1981), Tommy Jarvis in "" (1984), Pete Fountaine in "Gremlins" (1984), Clark 'Mouth' Devereaux in "The Goonies" (1985), Teddy Duchamp in "Stand by Me" (1986), Edgar Frog in "The Lost Boys" (1987) and Ricky Butler in "The 'Burbs" (1989).  Feldman is also the lead singer for the rock band Truth Movement. Wisteria Lane is the name of a fictional street at the center of U.S. television drama series "Desperate Housewives".  "Desperate Housewives" story lines primarily center on the residents of the street.  The set for Wisteria Lane is located inside Universal Studios Hollywood, and is actually named Colonial Street, an area that has been used for many motion pictures and television shows.  Other film and television productions in which Colonial Street has featured include the original "Leave It to Beaver" series, "Gremlins", "The 'Burbs", and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Richard "Dick" Miller (born December 25, 1928) is an American character actor who has appeared in over 100 films, particularly those produced by Roger Corman, and later in films of directors who started their careers with Corman, including James Cameron and Joe Dante, with the distinction of appearing in every film directed by Dante.  Miller's main roles have been in films such as "Gremlins", "", "The Explorers", "Piranha", "The Howling", "A Bucket of Blood", "The Little Shop of Horrors", "Chopping Mall", "Night of the Creeps", "The Terminator", "The 'Burbs" and "Small Soldiers". Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh (15 June 1929 – 31 January 2004), popularly known as Suraiya, was an Indian Muslim Hindi/Hindustani film actress and playback singer in Bollywood from the 1940s to the early 1960s, who remained unmarried throughout her life, after her love affair with actor Dev Anand was aborted by her maternal grandmother.  She was the most popular singing star of the Indian sub-continent of her generation.  Until 1943, as a child singer, Suraiya did playback singing for one actress, namely Mehtab, in three films, and also in some of her own films for her roles as a child artiste.  After this, she only sang for her own films as an actress, and acted as a heroine from 1946 until the end of her career in 1963.  From 1948 to 1951, she became the singing superstar of Bollywood, earning more for her performances than all the performing actors of the times, male or female, including Dev Anand, Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Nargis and Madhubala.  She received 1.5–2 lakhs rupees for her role per film, when top male actors were getting 50 thousand to 1 lakh rs.  For a song, she commanded rs. 1000, while Lata Mangeshkar was getting rs. 100–200 per song.  She was the only child of her parents.  She had a natural talent for singing, acting and dancing from childhood.  She received basic training in music when her mother used to take her to a Hindustani music teacher or 'masterji' for training.  She first sang for a children's program for All India Radio in 1937.  Later on Naushad gave her on the job 'training', while recording.  She went on to become one of the most successful singing film stars of Bollywood.  She had received training in dancing from Mumtaz Ali, dancer-actor and father of the famous comedian Mehmood.  She was also known for her North Indian Muslim feudal style acting or 'adakari' in many of her films ("Mirza Ghalib (film)", "Phool", "Afsar", "Shayar", "Jeet (1949 film)", "Anmol Ghadi" and "Dastan").  This style 'endowed modernity with an aura of tradition' and brought nostalgic feudal tinge to the scenes.  Her performance 'expertly integrated gestures, music and speech'.  Suraiya in her heyday was known as 'Malika-e-Husn' (queen of beauty), 'Malika-e-Tarannum' (queen of melody) and 'Malika-e-Adakaari' (queen of acting), all rolled into one.  In a career spanning from 1936 till 1963, Suraiya sang 338 songs in films (which were mostly her own films) and 2 in addition were non-film songs, namely, 'tum rahe kahan ko piya' and 'hum tum karenge pyar'.  She acted in 67 movies, which do not include the incomplete films such as "Jaanwar" (with Dilip Kumar), "Paagal Khaana" with Bharat Bhushan and an Indo-British film on Wajid Ali Shah (1953) being directed by British director, Herbert Marshall, with Ashok Kumar in the role of Wajid Ali Shah. Dana Olsen is an American actor, film producer and screenwriter.  His written works include "George of the Jungle", "The 'Burbs" and "Inspector Gadget". Ali Badshah (full name Syed Ali Mehdi Rizvi Badshah) is a Canadian actor, writer, producer, director and comedian.  Badshah, an observational comedian whose work often draws on his experiences growing up in and around Toronto, has also written and performed for Video on Trial and was an associate producer for MuchMusic.  He has written and starred in five televised comedy specials for CBC, CTV, The Comedy Network, MTV and ABC2 Australia.  Badshah created, executive produced, wrote, and starred in CBC’s first web comedy series "Bloody Immigrants".  An alumnus of both The Second City and Yuk Yuk's, he was on the front page of the "Toronto Star" as one of the Top Ten People in the country – the only actor/comedian to ever appear on their list – and was featured on the Comedy Network's 'Nubian Disciples Special', with Russell Peters and Dave Chappelle, as part of the “next generation of great Canadian comics.”
Answer: Rick Ducommun