It has been a heck of a week for the Schitt’s Creek cast! Just two days after the Canadian sitcom nabbed a casual 15 Emmy nominations, which earned the GLAAD Media Award for outstanding comedy series. Three stars of the show — Dan Levy (David Rose), Noah Reid (Patrick Brewer), and Karen Robinson (Ronnie Lee) — virtually gathered together from their own separate homes to accept the honor, and made us feel that we were back in a booth at the Café Tropical.
Levy kicked things by expressing his appreciation for the award and cracking some jokes, of course. “Thanks to all the other shows in our category to be amazing and to help move the dial when it comes to queer representation on television,” he said. “I would say that we would all divide the prize equally, but this is the last season of our program, so I’m just going to take, because who knows when I’m going to win one of these.” Then, Robinson appeared with his own message of appreciation, saying: “I love playing Ronnie. I love that it comes into existence in Schitt’s Creek, where their existence and their right to live and love in loud voice is not questioned.”
Reid, who portrays the Levy of the screen, the love interest throughout the series, also weighed in from his home. “I want to tell you how amazing that has to be part of a show like Schitt’s Creek representing the LGBTQIA+ community this way, and on a personal note, how amazing it has been to play Patrick,” he said, and added with a sly smile, “of course, David de la Rosa of the better half.” Ha! As if things could not possibly get sweeter, Levy wrapped up the speech with a heartwarming shoutout to all the devotees Schitt’s Creek to the viewers.
“Doing this show has been six years of absolute bliss.”
“I want to thank our fans that have joined together and created a movement for the good of all their own . . . they have not only increased the awareness of such important causes; they have also made tens of thousands of dollars for those causes in our name. You see. We love you all. I can not think of a better fan base — the people who are presenting, who are standing by the messages of our show, of love, of acceptance, and being there for each other, as well as being there for us.” Levy concluded, “the Writing of the queer characters in the show has been the greatest joy of my life . . . making this show has been six years of absolute bliss.” Welp, we’re not crying — it’s you! Excuse us sob tears of happiness in our Grass Ertlinger fruit wine.
