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People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

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One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

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Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

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You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

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I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

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Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

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'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.

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It's better when they laugh, isn't it?

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To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

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The only show I ever really wanted to do was 'SNL.' It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn't even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Producer

Born: November 17th, 1944

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