David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.