Daily Inspiration Quote by Eugene Levy

Levy is giving you a permission slip: loosen the grip on realism and let performance breathe. Calling it "cartoonish" isn’t an insult, it’s a craft choice - a signal that the project wanted heightened behavior, crisp angles, bigger reactions. In an era where prestige TV trains actors to underplay everything into a murmured bruise, he’s describing the opposite pleasure: the deliberate tilt toward exaggeration, where the joke lands because the character commits harder than real life ever would.

The SCTV reference does heavy lifting. That show’s DNA was parody with affection, characters drawn in thick lines but still weirdly human underneath. By invoking it, Levy frames "broad" not as lazy mugging, but as ensemble-driven comedy that trusts the audience to get the wink. The subtext: there’s a difference between going big and going hollow. SCTV’s broadness came from specificity - a persona so clear you could push it "over the edge" without losing the internal logic.

He’s also situating himself culturally. Levy is part of a Canadian comedy tradition that treats absurdity as a kind of realism: the world is ridiculous, so play it honestly at a louder volume. "Kind of fun" reads modest, but it’s an actor admitting to a rare indulgence - the joy of not sanding down the edges to seem serious. The intent is to reassure: if this performance feels larger than life, that’s not a misfire. It’s the point.