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At Home In L.a., Sunday Is Lazy. It's The Wife And Me Lying In Bed With Coffee, Watching 'the Soup' Or Something Funny On Tivo. The Kid Will Occasionally Join Us. Eventually, Breakfast Is At A Place Down The Street Called Paty's. And We Always Have Some Kind Of Great Dinner - My Wife Makes A Great Roast Beef.

I Was Playing This Sort Of Asshole Actor [in The Jenny Mccarthy Show]. And We Shot The Pilot, And It Was A Guaranteed Go. It Was Going To Be 24 [episodes] On The Air. No Questions From Nbc. And We Shot The Pilot, And I Was In Toronto Doing A Movie, And I Got A Call Saying They Cut The Character, That I Was Off The Show.

I Have Accomplished A Lot, But It Didn't Happen Overnight For Me. I Was 35 When I Got The Show, And Had Been Working Professionally For 15 Years. It Would Be A Lot Weirder If I Were In My Early 20s And Stumbled Into It.

[townies] Was A Huge Cast. It Was A Bit Ungainly, I Think With 12 Regular Characters They Had To Keep Writing For.

I Think There's A Certain Objectivity That Comes From Being Canadian. You're Partly British And Partly American; You Have A Good Bird's-eye View Of Both Countries. So Much Of The Comedy That Comes Out Of Canada Is Impersonation - It's Less 'look At Me' Than It Is 'look At Me Playing Other People.