Dan Levy made his long-awaited Saturday Night Live debut last Saturday. It’s a pretty sizable milestone, though Levy’s accomplished plenty of huge things in the past year, including winning multiple Emmys for producing, writing, directing, and acting on Schitt’s Creek.
But his mom Deborah Divine took the opportunity of her son hosting SNL to give a big “fuck you!” to the bullies who messed with her very talented and famous child. “This goes out to the bully punks at Camp WTF who made life miserable for a certain cabin-mate back in the summer of ‘96—just because he was different,” she wrote on Twitter. “Well, after all these years I have just 7 words to say to you: “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
Levy also tweeted in support of his mom’s sentiments, so he’s definitely appreciative.
Emily Hampshire also called her the “coolest, bestest boss mom in the universe” and that’s pretty accurate.
Schitt’s Creek may have ended last year but at least those “bully punks” will have to suffer through seeing Dan Levy’s face everywhere, probably for the rest of their lives. Seems like an appropriate punishment, don’t you think?
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How is it possible Emily Hampshire is a your/you’re person???!!!? Damn it! (And I sincerely wish this didn’t bother me as much as it does!)
Your kidding, right?
Were you kidding about the abandoned farm?
I’d read you’re book, you magnificent bastard.
Patton is grate.
The your/you’re, there/their/they’re folks need to learn to let this stuff go. Autocorrect on phones sometimes change shit because autocorrect is stupid. Firing off a quick tweet shouldn’t require a copy editing step. (I won’t even get into the whole its/it’s debate).
if you really “wish it didn’t bother you,” you can just not let it bother you…
How are you supposed to not let a thing like that bother you?
i dunno, man, i think i’ve gone numb.
By understanding that it has literally on effect on anything whatsoever in the entire universe?
You can’t not be bothered by something by just not being bothered by it.
I’m so happy my parents never tried to send me to camp.
Mine dropped me off at camp, then didn’t pick me up after.It was only years later that I learned it was an abandoned farm.
And that’s why, when your parents tell you your dog went to live on a farm upstate where he can run free, you don’t cry for weeks begging to be taken there too.
Four legs good, two legs bad?
I once gave my father a Father’s Day Card that went like this:“Dad, remember when I was small and we used to go on these long rides into the countryside? We’d stop in the middle of nowhere…”And then in the inside of the card“And how surprised you always were when I found my way home anyway”
My dad was like, “Who the fuck has money for camp? Here’s your camp… go clean the garage.”
Oh yeah definitely one of the reasons they never tried is because they didn’t have money for it. And we lived in the woods so I may have been a fat kid but I spent plenty of time outdoors anyhow.
The nice about being Canadian is the Cadet corps will pay you to go to summer camp.
Well it’s a slightly better deal than having to pay to do it but I’m still thinking it’s probably a ripoff.
That’s a take, I guess.
You’d have to pay me a good amount more than Canada can afford if you want me to make goddamn crafts and my stance on crafting has honestly softened over the past ~30ish years.
Crafts? What are you on about?
Crafts, a thing that one does at summer camp.
Wrong camp.You’d probably still think it’s a ripoff though.
The worst bullying I ever experienced was at camp. Absolutely brutal and unrelenting, from the first day to the last. The counselors, when they weren’t egging it on, couldn’t be bothered to put a stop to it. I hear other people talk about their magical camp experiences, and it’s like reading science fiction. I have never lived in that world.
I don’t even understand how people would have a good experience even if they’re not bullied: It’s like school in that you’re told what to do during the day, you have to participate in events, you’re forced to make crafts, etc… plus you’re away from home while you’re doing it. As long as your home life doesn’t suck I don’t understand what the draw is.
I’m sure that this would have been a pretty exclusive, not-at-all-cheap performing arts-themed camp. And on the one hand, AS IF Dan would be the only gay kid at a camp like that. But on the other hand.. rich kids. Rich kids suck.
Doesn’t matter how expensive the place is, if someone’s trying to make me do goddamn crafts over my summer vacation I’m not down with it.
I think it is supposed to be fun in the sense it is kind of a preview of university life — you live with roommates your own age that you are unrelated to and need to find a connection with, your parents aren’t around and are being looked after by camp counselors, who much like dorm RAs, aren’t really that picky about what you do unless it would get them in trouble.
That makes me think it’s the ‘parents aren’t around’ thing that’s the real draw, I looked after myself during the day over summer break from the time I was 7 so maybe that’s why I didn’t have an urge to go there.
I asked my parents to send me to camp with my cousin because she loved it so much. I was too dumb to realize that she was a very social 13 year old girl who went to camp with a bunch of her friends every year, and I would have been a very shy 13 year old boy who knew exactly one person in the whole place. Fortunately my parents didn’t have the money, and also the camp was run by Evangelical Christians – my devoutly Catholic mom wasn’t about to have her son inundated with protestantism.
Wow imagine how different your life might be if you had gone…
I mean, those bully punks just might’ve drunk themselves to death. Fair assumption.
or became better people LOL JK
Says the ableist who thinks disabled people should be played by non-disabled actors (https://news.avclub.com/1846197812)
Or breathed themselves to death…
“This goes out to the bully punks at Camp WTF who made life miserable for a certain cabin-mate back in the the summer of ‘96 – just because he was different. Well, after all these years I have just 7 words to say to you: “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!””
Good job letting those “bully punks” that they’ve been living rent-free in that skull of yours for two decades, mom.
I’m so glad that son of famous actor eugene levy was able to overcome childhood bullies. this is a very relatable and humanizing story
kill yourself
Personally I read more eye-roll in that “Moms” than appreciative support. I mean, loving, eye-roll, but you know…. Moms.
I need to know more about “Camp WTF”.
All the counselors are Marc Maron, at least philosophically.
It’s actually Camp Wattaffok
Is Armie Hammer’s mom backing him up?
Would you ask Tom Petty that question?
I’m pretty sure Mr. Petty would’ve answered “Hey man, what’s a Army Hammer…?”
I think “going to camp” — like sleepaway camp for weeks on end — was much more of an East Coast thing, and of course, is mostly for upper middle to rich people.
I grew up in a small town and was bullied as a kid. Once I graduated I left, joined the Navy and traveled the world, got a degree, got married and have a wife and two daughters who are all smarter and better looking than I am. Today I live in a nice house in a nice neighborhood in a nice town with nice neighbors.As George Herbert said, “Living well is the best revenge.”Those bullies? Forty years later they’re still in that podunk town. Life must be hard when your biggest accomplishment in life is being the BMOC at 16.
Sadly, as much as most of us at least have that, I’m going to guess that at least a few of Levy’s bullies are Bay St. Bros (Toronto, for Wall St. Douche) – affluent enough to keep failing upwards.
Those guys will always be there and they will continue to go through life thinking they’re successful. I guarantee every one of them thinks he pulled himself up by his bootstraps.
“Forty years later they’re still in that podunk town.”
And they haven’t thought of you in 30 years, much less allowed your words to rule their lives for three decades.
So clearly they’re the losers.
It’s funny how it goes like that.There was a guy in my primary school class who led the trio of boys who violently attacked and tortured me before tying me up and abandoning me when I was eight. After I got past the initial psychological trauma and named him to my parents, the matter got take up with the school but his mum was vice principal and they took the amusing argument that “we’re not going to punish the boys because god forgives them”. I moved schools as soon as the term was finished.Years later I found out he committed several other acts of horrific violence and ultimately ended up doing a long jail stint. No idea where he is these days but he was an absolutely evil piece of shit.Meanwhile, there was a guy who bullied me in high school who I was delighted to leave behind and forget after graduation. A few years later I found out he’d hit the booze and drugs hard at uni and ended up having a severe psychotic break. After getting help and recovering he got his life together, got married and reassessed things. He’s a mate of a mate and I’ve caught up with him and his wife a couple of times when visiting Melbourne and he actually apologised for everything.
I’m in my 50s now and understand on an intellectual level that many bullies are motivated by their own insecurities. I’d like to hope most come to terms with that grow out of it, but there are some who are just too broken stay that way.
Yeah absolutely. I get what you’re saying. It’s one of those things where you hope they do grow up and at some point reflect on things.Unfortunately some people are just massive arseholes!
I’ve just started season 2 of Schitt’s Creek and Dan Levy is my new/first joy of 2021. I might be a little late to the party but ain’t no party like a Dan Levy party.And I once went to a music camp and watched a kid pee into some other kid’s snare drum. You ask how? There’s a small hole in drums that lets the air out when you hit it. He stuck his dick hole up against the drum hole and pee’d inside. I felt terrible about it at the time but I just sat there and watched this kid do it so I felt terrible but not terrible enough to stop it and get bullied myself I guess. Kids.
having Mom call out your bullies will certainly cause these bullies to stop
His mom is offending people who have to use straws and proficient prostitutes by using the “s” word. That specific demographic have feelings too y0u know.
What did she expect sending him to Camp What The Fuck?
Summer camps largely aren’t a thing in my country, so the idea of going away for several weeks on end was both a totally foreign experience, plus something which we learned about entirely from US movies and TV.As someone who absolutely fucking hates camping and loathed the school ones we had to go on, I was deeply glad to not have that experience.
I have to wonder how shitty that camp experience was that 25 years later even his mom is not over what happened.
Ugh, I hate the thought of anyone bullying my kids. 🙁 🙁 🙁 My daughter’s in kindergarten and there’s this other little bitch-ass girl in there who’s mean to her. I want to mess the girl up, but she’s a kid so it’s illegal.
Thing about bullies is, they wouldn’t care about that.They’d just respond with “Shut up, gaywad”.