Peaches

Canadians understand what's going on in America, but never really feel American because they're not.

So they have this way of looking at America.

Do you know what I mean?

Well, there's like, I mean, Jim Carrey.

And I mean, all the people from Second City, like Catherine O'Hara.

No, she was part of the Second City, who Dan Levy's father, Eugene Levy, was part of it too.

Rick Moranis and John Candy.

I mean, I'm not even getting to half of the like ones who are, you know, that you're like, oh, whoa, they're Canadian, they're Canadian.

Whoever's watching this right now is yelling out all the really famous comedians.

But it is true, there's a huge amount of Canadian comedians, yeah.

The name Peaches comes from a Nina Simone song called For Women.

And as Nina Simone always does with her passion and conviction and her compassion for her culture, she sings about for women's struggle.

And I want to say that in no way do I feel like these are my struggles, but I was particularly drawn to the last song

woman, the way she describes the woman and at the end of the description, then she gives the name of the woman and she says, and it's the last line of the whole song, they call me Peaches.

And the way she sings that, I wanted her to be singing it to me.

So I called myself Peaches because I knew she wasn't going to be singing, they call me Meryl.

And it's so funny because that name has so many implications that I did not think about that actually would relate to the music I did at all.

Like, you know, fuzzy on the outside, juicy and all the like pornographic ways peaches is used or cutesy or the color.

I didn't think of that at all.

I was just thinking of the passionate way she said peaches.