34 August 1 • 2019
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LYNNE KONSTANTIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Schitt’
s Creek Live 
is headed to Detroit. T

he funniest person in the family is my 
wife, Deb. But she doesn’
t like to be in 
front of the camera since her grade 3 play 
when she forgot all her lines,” Eugene Levy told 
the Today show.
To be called the funniest in this family is seri-
ous. Eugene, who’
s been in the comedy business 
as an actor, producer, director and writer, cut his 
comedic teeth at Second City, Toronto, an improv 
theater troupe, with the likes of John Candy, 
Dan Akroyd and Catherine O’
Hara, as well as 
SCTV
. He’
s also legendary for his collaborations 
with Christopher Guest, appearing and co-writ-
ing Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman and 
co-writing the Grammy-winning title song for A 
Mighty Wind. He’
s been seen in Splash, American 
Pie and now Schitt’
s Creek — the cast of which is 
headed to the Masonic Temple for a live appear-
ance on Aug. 10.
The Canadian Pop Network comedy was 
co-created by Eugene’
s son, Dan Levy, who 
also writes and co-stars, along with Catherine 
O’
Hara — who’
s collaborated with Eugene for 
more than 40 years — and Sarah Levy, Eugene’
s 
daughter. The show tells the tale of the filthy-rich 
Rose family — video-store magnate Johnny, his 

soap-opera star wife, Moira, and their two grown 
children, David and Alexis (Annie Murphy) — 
suddenly losing it all except the broke-down 
motel Johnny once bought for his son as a joke in 
a town called Schitt’
s Creek.
Eugene Levy is the kind of guy who can make 
you laugh by just looking at the camera. Or by 
raising one of his comedically outsized eyebrows. 
It’
s not so much what he says in Schitt’
s Creek as it 
is his straight-man delivery.
Although what he says almost always packs 
a punch, too. Eugene has passed his comedic 
talents, timing and eyebrows on to his son, Dan. 
In his hands, the show is not the cheap class-

theater
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TOP: The Levy boys — Eugene and Dan. ABOVE: Eugene 
Levy and Catherine O’
Hara in a scene from the third season 
of Schitt’
s Creek. 
 

The Rose family, played by (clockwise) Catherine O’
Hara, 
Eugene Levy, Annie Murphy and Dan Levy.

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