Quotes

It took us a while to figure out what the camera did to comedy, but that was a creative lesson to learn. If you go back to our first season you'll see a few sketches without any kind of editing that television allows you to do to make the thing pace up a bit. But the half-hour format was very generous. We were indulged and coached and nurtured in such a fantastic way that it kind of spoiled us. We got to do this completely original thing at a very young age, and then we got to discover what he bigger business was actually like.

[on 'The Kids in the Hall'' in the 1980s] We get discovered by Lorne [Michaels] and then there is a whole new door of the industry opening up which is cable and which meant that you could do a show that was more specific, and more cult-y and edgy, because you didn't need to amass the gigantic audiences that at that time were required to make a network show a hit.