Dan Levy

“I feel very lucky about the fact that nobody really watched Schitt's Creek until it was done. So we were able to just make the show we wanted. How rare is that? To make six seasons of a TV show with absolutely no expectations from an audience. Nobody cared. We were hustling till the end. And then it wasn't until I had finished writing the last episode of our sixth season, the series finale, that people started to pay attention.”

“As a place that is sort of wanting to be very different than America, but knowing that it is not quite as powerful, there is an inherent sort of self awareness that is in the water. And I believe self awareness is what makes the people funny. Yes. It's a lack of self awareness is the most boring people you meet are completely unaware of how boring they are. Canadians are very aware of how boring they are, and that's what makes it funny.”

“And the crazy thing about it is that I'm still, like you know, I go on Instagram and her face is there, and Moira's clips from the show are all over the place. It's and I every time I see her, even though I wrote the thing I stop and I watch. And I'm watching not for anything that I did. But I'm watching because she is impossible not to watch. Impossible not to love, and she's it's impossible not to laugh with her in anything she does.”

“I have never known what the next thing is and go into, like, a weird, slovenly to my my wonderful team of people. I will I cannot hear the word momentum ever again. Right. Right. I don't it means nothing to me. Momentum, I feel like, is is a word that forces people to make bad decisions. Wow. That's good. I just and yet, this is an industry that's like, you're hot. You're hot. You're hot.”

“And there's no I mean, you know, to work on things you don't care about, it's just not fun. So I would rather take the time and risk the lack of momentum and put something out that continues to, like, excite people than take every opportunity and not be maybe even the best fit for the opportunity that crosses my path. Yeah. It's a really interesting point you make about momentum because that is a thing.”

“Ordinary and necessary expenses can be deductible. Now I guess the question is, are those ordinary and Sure. Monotonous egg. I are they necessary? It says and necessary. And Is comedy necessary to this podcast? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. It's not comedy. A bronchosaurus egg is not comedy until you foisted upon the podcast, and you you barrel your way into podcast and say, look what I got.”

“I'm at the Ren Faire, and I'm like, oh, man. I should get a sword and bring it in because it could be a good comedy bit. So I buy another sword, and that's what I'm writing off because it's for a comedy bit. I'm not writing off the one I already have. I'm like, I'm taking things from my life and heightening them to use a comedy trick.”