As a Dave, I had to ask comedian/actor/writer/musician Bruce McCulloch if he’s sick of journalists named Dave riffing in interviews off “The Daves I Know,” the catchy, goofy ditty he wrote for cult Canadian sketch-comedy TV show The Kids in the Hall. “Not necessarily journalists… just maybe humans in general,” he says with a laugh. “But at least somebody knows something about me.”
Now 58, McCulloch has risen to serious heights in television and film through a razor-sharp instinct for the hilarious and the ridiculous. The Kids in the Hall put him on the cultural map in the late 1980s, and he’s remained there ever since with stints writing for Saturday Night Live, roles in the movies Brain Candy and Super Troopers 2, two music LPs (Shame-Based Man and Drunk Baby Project), and a memoir, 2014’s Let’s Start a Riot: How a Young Drunk Punk Became a Hollywood Dad.
