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"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing."
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"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
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"I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that."
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"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."
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"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer."
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"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."
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"Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live."
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"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."
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"Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it."
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"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."
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"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
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"When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean."
Character
"In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job."
Job
"No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12."
Age
"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
Life
"Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter."
Money
"You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest."
Man
"And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities."
Values
"I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all."
Opportunity
"We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming."
Nature
"I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing."
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