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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

— Barry Humphries My Life as Me: A Memoir (2002)

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Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.

And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.

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