Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.
Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian o...
In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.
Comedy is actually very macho driven.
I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.
My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.
The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.
I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.
My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.
Writing is a difficult thing.
