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"My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead."
"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."
"Why is being outed such a big deal? When I find out that someone's gay, my respect for them increases tenfold."
"Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch."
"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke."
"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."
"People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded."
"A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho."
"This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things."
"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."
"When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me."