{"id":22619,"date":"2020-08-12T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T14:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/hamilton-born-comedian-eugene-levy-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-roasted-by-steve-martin\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:55:37","slug":"hamilton-born-comedian-eugene-levy-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-roasted-by-steve-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/hamilton-born-comedian-eugene-levy-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-roasted-by-steve-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton-born comedian Eugene Levy receives lifetime achievement award, roasted by Steve Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comedy legends virtually celebrated Hamilton-born comedian Eugene Levy after he <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/eugene-levy-lifetime-achievement-award-video\/?amp=true&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=social-share-article&amp;__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newport Beach Film Festival<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A video on the Pop TV YouTube page showed stars and loved ones expressing their congratulations along with some light roasting.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">love you, Eugene! \ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j3ErzHxctU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/j3ErzHxctU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Schitt&#39;s Creek (@SchittsCreek) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SchittsCreek\/status\/1293226183618899970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stars like Steve Martin and Martin Short appeared in the video that mostly showed Levy&#8217;s reaction to heartfelt tributes to his life work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;You set a bar for everyone that you work with,&#8221; said Dan Levy, his son and co-creator Schitt&#8217;s Creek. &#8220;You are incredibly professional, you are incredibly kind, and you have been such a role model for me, just in terms of how to be good generally, and good at your job.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Levy&#8217;s other family members including his daughter Sarah Levy also appeared in the video. The comedian&#8217;s onscreen kids, Annie Murphy of Schitt&#8217;s Creek and Jason Biggs of American Pie, also express their congratulations to the comedian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yz3ZcRg3wPk&amp;feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire video here<\/a> to see Levy react to the heartfelt tributes and appearances from Schitt&#8217;s Creek co-stars Katherine O&#8217;Hara and Chris Elliot as well as Andrea Martin and Jennifer Coolidge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedy legends virtually celebrated Hamilton-born comedian Eugene Levy after he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newport Beach Film Festival.\u00a0 A video on the Pop TV YouTube page showed ...","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8071],"tags":[4757,3120,1986,5770,4931,19,20,5771,5772,5773],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/levy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28073,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619\/revisions\/28073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}