Dan Levy

I think that shows incredible strength of character because I could never do, I settle on something and my shifts are so microscopic, no one notices except me.

Well, sometimes that's the best part is when you're the only one that notices.

Well, I think it shows strength of character, so I'm impressed.

I appreciate that.

I have trunks full of them.

I've got these custom trunks with drawers that pull out to store them all, yeah.

You're the multi-award winning and instantly recognizable star of Schitt's Creek, the series that kept many of us sane during lockdown.

You wrote it with your father, Eugene Levy, who also stars in the show.

And you talked about creating a distance from him when you were younger because of all the attention he attracted.

As the child of a kind of more bohemian person myself, I wondered, did you ever want him to be a more conventionally funny man?

I don't know, actually.

That's a great question.

I don't think I've ever really thought about it.

I've just kind of accepted...

him, I suppose, for, I mean, a lot of comedians are not very funny behind closed doors.

I think when it's your job, you don't feel that same desire to kind of perform, some do.

Someone like Marty Short is unbelievably, brilliantly, otherworldly, hysterically funny, and is at all times.

My dad is somebody who I think is quite serious a lot of the time, but would weaponize the humor growing up whenever he needed us to laugh in times when we were quite angry with him.

God, it's so interesting that because you write brilliant comedy and you, you know, you were just saying about how comedians also suffer from quite often from low mood.

And I wondered if that was your experience as well.