WHAT THEY SAID AT ’THE CANDYS’

“My dad would cry when Chrissy would learn something on Three’s Company so I’d like to think he’s crying happy tears right now.”

— Catherine O’Hara, Best Actress in a Comedy Series winner

“I’m thinking tonight of all the kids who live in fear and in poverty and in refugee camps, and to inspire their parents to get through one more day.”

— Emma Donoghue, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

“I was really excited about the prospect of playing a character that is probably the straightest thing I have ever done in my career and this award means to me I failed miserably at that.”

— Eugene Levy, Best Actor in a Comedy Series winner

“This must be déjà vu to you, being stuck in a room for so long like this.”

— Host Norm Macdonald to Jacob Tremblay, star of Room

“When I met Marty back in Hamilton at McMaster University, frankly I was shocked he wasn’t gay. (He was the only guy) using the entire floor to glide into a Sonja Henie impersonation, 1936 Norwegian figure skating champion Sonja Henie. This was so not Hamilton to me.”

— Eugene Levy, presenting Lifetime Achievement Award to Martin Short

“A lifetime achievement Candy. Oh, you should have. I’m so utterly overwhelmed by this. I didn’t even know I was sick.”

— Martin Short

“Wow, this is amazing. I can’t believe a kid like me won against a bunch of amazing, talented adults. Christopher Plummer, you’re a legend.”

— Jacob Tremblay, Best Actor in a Film winner

“I want to thank everybody who ever watched and told their friends and told their family, ‘You have to see this weird little show about people in the Prairies.’ Without you, Corner Gas would have been this weird little sketch I did for my dog in my backyard.”

— Brent Butt on Corner Gas: The

Movie winning a Golden Screen Award