Troupe member Kevin McDonald, who grew up in poverty because of an alcoholic, perpetually unemployed father, received a full scholarship to Humber College’s drama program. He was expelled after one semester, right around Christmas 1980. He says his improv teacher hated him “because I always fell asleep in his class,” while the dean “called me a ‘one-legged actor,’” meaning he lacked versatility, “which was ironic as he was himself an actual one-legged actor who’d lost a leg when a lighting grid fell on it during a production of Pippin.” But one Humber instructor saw something in McDonald: William B. Davis. That dude later went on to become one of the scariest characters in TV history: the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files. Disagreeing with the expulsion, he told McDonald that he was very good at comedy and that he should look into improv. “And he wrote down the phone number for the Second City workshops,” McDonald said.