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Date Posted: 04/26/03 7:28pm
Author: Peppi
Subject: Very cute interview with Colin in this month's Reader's Digest (spoilers)

RD: What is it about the stage that makes you come out of your shell?'

CM: I've been really fortunate in that the people I've worked with have always been really good friends. Ryan Stiles and I have known each other for 25 years, so getting onstage with him is the most relaxed thing in the world. I guess onstage you have a trust in what everybody else is going to do, you know what your function is. On one occasion, Ryan had to act out a fawn being born. Before I went onstage, he said, "When you finish, stay in one spot, open your legs, I'm coming out your bum." It wasn't till I got out there I thought, What? But I did it, and it was very funny. You have to trust someone who says, "I'm coming out your bum."

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RD: That's when you landed the British Whose Line But when the show moved to LA, you almost didn't make it?

CM: They wanted someone young and hip. During our first show, Deb was in the greenroom and heard some executives say: "You know what we need? Stars." They started naming everyone from George Clooney to Julia Roberts. Finally a higher-up said, "You know, what these guys are doing is really hard." They left us alone and now see that the show works with the funny, old-looking guys.

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RD: Do you work on your weaknesses through your comedy?

CM: There are parts of myself I try to work out onstage. I've got more at ease with people, where I'm actually talking to someone without turning red every sentence. After the things I've done on Whose Line, it's getting really hard for me to be embarrassed, 'cause I've touched everybody in ways I don't even touch my wife.

Basically my major things onstage are to have fun, make people laugh and sometimes teach them a little about Canada. If I can teach them that we don't have winter 11 months out of 12, that we do have light on a regular basis, that we have Halloween and all the major holidays, that there is an actual Moose Jaw -- if I can do that, my work is done.

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