But if you're just trying to bring a little humor to a dark subject, I don't see anything wrong with that.

W- well, and in fact, it's important.

A- and it's, it's even more, which is the way we, you know, uh, we sort of get through and process the very dark things are through humor.

And I, you know, in my new show, I do talk about how I've, [laughs] how I've never been funnier than at my l- like, at my dad's service, where there were six people, uh, including him, 'cause he was such an a- asshole, and I was just hilarious.

And I do think we use, we use humor to get through the dark times 'cause sometimes when, when things are, chips are down, humor's all we have.

Can you elaborate on that a little bit, please?

Yeah.

No, I had a great friend, Kathleen McGee, uh, who, uh, from Edmonton, opened for me, and we had a great friendship for about 10 years.

What do you

think? Well, I have a different point of view.

I think the Catholic Church hasn't done anything good since it invented Easter.

Yeah.

Which is great because you get all those eggs and stuff.

But I actually think that the Catholic Church or the Pope is missing an opportunity to expand their brand.

Because imagine an AI Jesus coming up on your phone, rising up on your phone, maybe delivering you pizza, delivering memes for the masses.

Now, are you celebrating or mourning the end of short shorts on men? Bruce, represent all men here for us.

Now, are you celebrating or mourning the end of short shorts on men? Bruce? Represent all men here for us.

Well, I'm a smaller man.

I'm only 17 inches high, as you know.

So I can wear most shorts as pants.

But I think the thing is that we're not talking enough about how high they go.

Like, I like shorts that go right up to under my chin.

The shorts I'm wearing right now are functioning as a girdle.

What do you think,

[laughs]

So he would pull, he would do something, and he would just like the [laughs] and then he does it, and it's like he doesn't even look at you, but he just laughs.

And then we'd be writing late at night, and he would be on the phone pitching something to someone.

We're in the middle of writing a sketch, and it's like he's almost baby talk.

Yeah.

People come in.

They actually give their confessions to a priest, which we can stunt cast the fuck out of that, and you know that.

And so they'll tell all the terrible things they've done, the things that they're burdening him.

You know.

...

this thing called Making Treaty 7, which was a, a show about indigenous p- people in, uh, Canada.

And all these indigenous cool, like now 40-year-old queer kids or two-spirit or whatever came up and, and literally hugged me and they said, "We didn't have anything up there." Right? They were all up on the reservations, wherever they were.

Bruce, Bruce, Bruce wrote that.

Yeah, and I, I think I'm a title guy.

Naked for Jesus, that sound like a good idea? And that was when I was just with Mark, and Mark, Mark was very accepting of my weird ideas, and just went with that one.

But I don't know how the conversation about...