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" 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.' "
Up
Look
Light
" A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho. "
Super
Men
Delusion
" 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. "
Canada
Think
People
" Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. "
Places
Sharp
Edges
" Art is difficult. "
Difficult
Art
" 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 or a sketch performer. "
Country
You
Sketch
" Comedy is actually very macho driven. "
Comedy
Actually
Very
" Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. "
Teaching
How
Punch
" 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. "
Wish
Me
I Believe
" I do love jokes. "
Jokes
Love
" If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work. "
Each
Comedy
Like
" I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?' "
My Life
Time
Way
" I guess chemistry is just another word for love. "
Word
Just
Guess
" I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy. "
Nerd
Total
Fantasy
" I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges. "
Pick
Honest
Flower
" I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things. "
Those
Really
Things
" 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. "
American
America
You
" In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke. "
France
Cool
Think
" 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. "
Supposed
Career
Going
" I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. "
West
Crisis
Masculinity
" I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor. "
Less
Humor
American
" I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really. "
Think
Sense Of Humor
Humor
" I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. "
Experience
Nice
Perfect
" I wanted to be a male ballet dancer. "
Dancer
Wanted
Ballet
" I won't play a teenager. "
Teenager
Play
" My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity. "
Make
Kind
Cancer
" 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. "
Feeling
Feel
Judge
" My theory is that comedy comes from little people. "
People
Comedy
Little
" People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. "
People
Listen
Lecture
" The gay male is always going to be at the bottom. "
Always
Gay
Male
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