My Dad Was From Liverpool, And He

At Every Point I Wished That I Was Born English. They Need To Make It Colder In Here. You Could Hang Meat In This Room. But, Yeah...i Grew Up In A Very English Household. My Folks Were From Liverpool. I've Said This Before, But There Is Nothing More English Than An Englishman That No Longer Lives In England.

I've Wanted To Be An Actor Since I Was Eight Years Old And I Did Tv Commercials When I Was A Kid. When I Was Eleven Saturday Night Live Came On And I Thought, "oh God, I'd Love To Do That." I Saw The Pink Panther Movies And Thought, "god, I'd Love To Have A Comedy Series; I'd Love To Have A Character I'd Created That Becomes A Series." I've Now Pretty-much Done Everything I've Wanted To Do Since I Was Eight Years Old And It's A Wonderful Feeling, I've Got To Say.

Everything I Do Is Autobiographical In Some Way. 'wayne's World' Was Me Growing Up In The Suburbs Of Toronto And Listening To Heavy Metal, And 'austin Powers' Was Every Bit Of British Culture That My Father, Who Passed Away In 1991, Had Forced Me To Watch And Taught Me To Love.

I Love Making Stuff. There's A Joy In Having The First Molecule Of An Idea, Then Testing It In Front Of Audiences At Secret Shows That People Only Know About The Day Before. I Videotape Those, Study Them, Enjoy Being In The Character And Figuring Out The Movie.

I Do Miss Saturday Night Live, That's For Sure. There's Nothing Like It. I Just Hosted, And I Felt I'd Only Been Away For A Week.