Creative! Queer!! Autistic!!!<p>" <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/MartinShort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MartinShort</span></a> : I waited so long to audition because I was afraid. The idea of improvising comedy was daunting to me. I liked doing musicals and plays. I always saw myself more as an actor than as someone in comedy. I joined in 1977, when I replaced <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/JohnCandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnCandy</span></a> in a show. Instead of playing a scene like John played it, it was like, “Why don’t I just do it as, oh…Columbo?” They wanted you to play to your strengths.</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/CatherineOHara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CatherineOHara</span></a> : It was my university of comedy: writing, character development, thinking on your feet and learning about scene structure. All of the lessons I learned there, I’m still working on every day. They threw out a lot of references in Chicago. They loved to drop philosophers’ names. Or authors’. In Toronto, we were just trying to crack people up. For us, it was about characters: people we met on the subway, our family members. Our scenes were more about the dynamics between human beings. It was more emotional. We weren’t as well read.</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/JoeFlaherty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoeFlaherty</span></a> : We were just trying to be funny! Get laughs! In order for the audience to accept us, I wanted them to leave the theatre having laughed a lot."</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/SCTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCTV</span></a></p><p><a href="https://torontolife.com/culture/untold-stories-from-the-early-years-of-second-city-the-group-that-changed-comedy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">torontolife.com/culture/untold</span><span class="invisible">-stories-from-the-early-years-of-second-city-the-group-that-changed-comedy/</span></a></p>