By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.