Shatner will spin lines in ways you don't see coming - he winds the audience down like a spring and hits the line so hard, they erupt. It's amazing to watch actually.
Even more than the comedy thing, I really wanted to be an actor.
I was fortunate to literally find my style on camera working in Canada.
I was fortunate enough to crash the right audition when I was 15, and just took it from there.
I've been acting since I was 15 years old professionally, and I've never been asked on the 'TODAY' show or anything like that. And now here I am on the 'TODAY' show, it's bizarre!
Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.
I don't like aggressive humor or mean humor.
Anytime I get to come home and work, it is special for me.
'MADtv' was a network show, so we would come across the people that we were lampooning - a lot.
Sketch comes from everyday life. You can see someone on the street, and it can turn into a five-minute sketch.
I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.
It may sound kind of brash but you really do have to treat it like just another job. It could be over tomorrow, and if you invest too much of yourself in, 'Hey I am the show and the show is me,' you'll get snapped hard.
A good sketch show, in my opinion, gets together a bunch of fun, funny people and collects their brainfarts, and shares them.
That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.
It's how we live, making fun of ourselves.
I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.
