We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it`s faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That`s a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.
Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I`m sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor`s careers not at all it doesn`t matter.
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it`s faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
