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On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin [Turvey] works so well.

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I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

I can be gloriously stupid, but if it helps to divert peoples attentions from the grimness of life, I’m happy.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn’t be here!

I feel proud to have turned that down. I wish I could remember what it was. Let’s say Hamlet. Yeah, I turned down Hamlet. Well who fucking wouldn’t? I mean how many gags are there in that?

I once walked to school in my underpants and a soggy shoe because my shoe flew off into the river when I tried kicking a ball. My brother retrieved it, but then demanded my trousers, because his were soaked.

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