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If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.
Scott Thompson
2.
I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.
Scott Thompson
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Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
Scott Thompson
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When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
Scott Thompson
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My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.
Scott Thompson
6.
Comedy is actually very macho driven.
Scott Thompson
7.
I guess chemistry is just another word for love.
Scott Thompson
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I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.
Scott Thompson
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I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.
Scott Thompson
10.
I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.
Scott Thompson
11.
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
Scott Thompson
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I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
Scott Thompson
13.
When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
Scott Thompson
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Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.
Scott Thompson
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This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.
Scott Thompson
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A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.
Scott Thompson
17.
People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
Scott Thompson
18.
Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.
Scott Thompson
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In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.
Scott Thompson
20.
Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
Scott Thompson
21.
Why is being outed such a big deal? When I find out that someone's gay, my respect for them increases tenfold.
Scott Thompson
22.
In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
Scott Thompson
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My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.
Scott Thompson
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Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
Scott Thompson
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Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.
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I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?
Scott Thompson
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I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.
Scott Thompson
28.
My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
Scott Thompson
29.
I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.
Scott Thompson
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I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
Scott Thompson
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The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.
Scott Thompson