Dan Levy
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But statistically speaking, I mean, I think there are a lot of very successful, specifically Canadian comedians.
And it's also pockets of very funny Canadians that have found each other at these points in their lives.
And I, you know, going one of my big like genie wishes would be to go back and watch some of those early Second City nights.
You know, John Candy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, my dad, Marty, and then, you know, Gilda.
And I mean, then you get into the God spell of it all, which I would have killed to have seen.
The very first movie I ever made was with Tina Fey.
And at a break, she came over and she was like, I want to talk about Godspell in Toronto.
So it's it's it's yes, there are funny Canadians, but there's also like these pockets of unbelievably brilliant Canadian funny minds that have somehow found their way into the international sort of zeitgeist.
I think it's because we live above America, which is inherently sort of a very prideful freedom and
You know, we don't have that kind of hubris.
So as a place that is sort of wanting to be very different than America, but knowing that it is not quite as powerful.
There is an inherent sort of self-awareness that is in the water.