Read on for a look at inside the lives of Darcy and Jer and their 20-year relationship.
“Ah, well I think people either throw me into the stoner-comic thing or the gay-comic thing.
At the time, he could hardly believe what has happening.
he joked in his routine.
That video, like Yuma’s, went viral.
“That’s when the beast was born,” Michael said in an interview withXtra.
As Darcy toldNow Toronto, during their wedding reception he was asked to give a speech.
Having nothing prepared, he delivered an improvised monologue that had the crowd in stitches.
“It was probably the best show of my life,” Darcy recalled.
“I’ve never done a show where I didn’t come out,” he said.
However, as he told theVancouver Observerback in 2012, he had no intention of doing that.
I’ll always call Vancouver home.”
“I mean, Jer left his job a year ago and he had a high-paying corporate job.
But we both agreed that he had to quit, I can’t keep up with this alone.”
As Baer explained, they’d hit the point where they needed to hire someone.
For comedy veteran Michael, working with his husband has completely changed his act.
They’ve also been adamant about ensuring they don’t burn out, and schedule ample breaks between shows.
In the series, a workplace comedy set in a public relations firm, Michael played quirky staffer Gordon.
Speaking about his role on the show withThe Georgia Straight, Michael confessed that he’s no method actor.
“If I don’t do that, I’m empowering their hate.”
This is certainly true of the couple’s approach to politics.
“I’m very political, I’m a news junkie off screen.
“We’re trying to find the balance,” he told theDelta Optimist.
“The last 12 months have been wild,” Darcy told Xtra.
Every time we venture to be like, ‘that’s the moment,’ something else comes along.
It just keeps snowballing.”
“I shouldn’t have to.
Those are three things you might’t necessarily sing loudly about in other countries.”
The money, Darcy told theNew York Daily News, was significant.
Yet it didn’t sit right with the couple.
We ain’t doing that," Michael explained.
As both a writer and performer himself, Michael had no hesitation in declaring where his allegiance lay.
“I stand with actors and writers, always.”
At the time, Michael was champing at the bit in anticipation of her 18th birthday.
