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>> THAT WAS A CLIP FROM THE BRILLIANT LITTLE AMERICA WHICH
IS AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW ON APPLE TV PLUS.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SHOW.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) >> IT IS BRILLIANT.
TELL EVERYONE WHAT IT IS ABOUT AND WHY YOU WANTED TO MAKE SH
SHOW.
>> THE SHOW IS AN AN TOLLING BASED ON TRUE STORIES OF
IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE MOVED TO AMERICA.
EVERY EPISODE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, IT SAY COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT TOWN STVMENT BASICALLY LIKE A SHORT FILM, EACH ONE.
AND YOU KNOW, WE DRAM ADVERTISE IT, BUT I REALLY FELT LIKE, YOU
KNOW, I FEEL LIKE WHEN PEOPLE HEAR THE WORD IMMIGRANT NO
MATTER WHAT SIDE OF THE ISSUE YOU ARE ON, AN THE CRITICS ARE
OBVIOUSLY VERY-- THEY WROATS WHATEVER SIDE YOU ARE ON, PEOPLE
SORT OF GET A SIMILAR IMAGE IN THEIR HEAD AND SO WE WANTED TO
JUST SORT OF TELL STORIES THAT WERE NOT THAT, THAT WERE LIKE
VERY DIFFERENT FROM GENERALLY THE STRUGGLE AND STRIFE STORY
YOU HEAR ABOUT IMMIGRANTS.
I THINK THOSE STORIES ARE VERY VALID AND VERY IMPORTANT.
BUT WE WANTED TO SORT OF SHOW A DIFFERENT SIDE OF THESE
IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES AND I FELT LIKE IT WAS PORNLT TO DO THAT.
>> I THINK IT IS JOYOUS EXPERIENCE WATCHING IT AND THE
PREVAWS HAVE BEEN INCREDS BE.
11 COUNTRIES HAVE JUST FOUND ONE OF THE EPISODES.
>> YES.
>> WHY IS THAT.
>> THERE IS AN EPISODE CALLED THE SUN, BASICALLY A TRAW STORY
ABOUT THIS MAN FROM SYRIA WHO IS GAY WHO COMES TO AMERICA TO SORT
OF FIND A PLACE WHERE HE CAN BE HIMSELF AND 11 COUNTRIES BANNED
IT BASE OF YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL CONTENT IN TV.
AND SOME OF THEM ARE MID EL EASTERN COUNTRIES.
SO IT IS JUST-- WHY DID PEOPLE LAUGH.
>> IT IS REALLY, IT'S REALLY FRUSTRATING BECAUSE THE PEOPLE
WHO MIGHT CONNECT TO IT THE MOST ARE THE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ABLE
TO WATCH IT SO WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET AROUND IT.
BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S-- AND IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL EPISODE IT IS
REALLY REALLY BRILLIANT EPISODE.
YOU KNOW, STEVEN AND-- WROTE T STEVEN DIRECTED IT, AND HAS AND
ADAM PLAY THE LEADS IN IT AND THEY REALLY, REALLY POURED THEIR
SOUL INTO THE STORIES.
IT VL MOVING.
SO WE ARE HOPING THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION.
>> James: WELL, I HOPE YOU DO.
I REALLY, REALLY DO.
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THAT SHOULD SEE IT, IT WOULD BE SO WONDERFUL
IF THEY GO.
ANDS A JUXTAPOSITION TO THAT, THIS I THINK IS THE MOST
GLORIOUS THING, WHICH I KNOW YOU ARE VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING
THIS OUT THERE.
FANS OF SCHITT'S CREEK HAVE BEEN POSTING PHOTOS OF THEMSELVES
KISSING UNDERNEATH THIS BILLBOARD AND IT MAKES ME RATHER
EMOTIONAL.
I THINK STAY BEAUTIFUL THING.
AND YOU WERE VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING THIS BUILT, THIS
IMAGE TO BE THE BILLBOARD, RIGHT?
>> YEAH, IT WAS OUR LAST SEASON AND I THOUGHT I HAVE AN
OPPORTUNITY, HAVE I A NETWORK THAT WILL SUPPORT ME.
IT FELT ALMOST IRRESPONSIBLE NOT TO DO THAT.
NOT TO PUT SOMETHING OUT INTO THE WORLD THAT WE DON'T SEE
EVERY DAY, TO PUT SOMETHING OUT INTO THE WORLD THAT IS BEING
BANNED IN MULTIPLE COUNTRIES.
AND TOOLOGICAL BE UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT IT.
AND IT HAS BECOME A PLACE WHERE QUEER PEOPLE AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE
HAVE COME TO CELEBRATE THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER WHICH IS
VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ME.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> BECAUSE YOU JUST TRY AND PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD AND TELL
STORIES THAT HOPEFULLY EFFECT SOME KIND OF CHANGE.
BUT IT WAS A PRETTY, PRETTY BAD ASS MOVIE
(APPLAUSE).
>> James: I LOVE IT.
>> PLEASE THANK OUR BRILLIANT GUEST, KUMAIL NANJIANI, AND DAN
LEVY, CELESTE IS HERE WHEN WE COME BACK.
YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT.