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"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."
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"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
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"I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians."
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"My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens."
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"You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians."
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"I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction."
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"Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff."
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"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."
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"I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running."
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"I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this."
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"The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry."
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"We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people."
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"We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny."
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"I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance."
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"There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag."
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"People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh."
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"I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry."
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"We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look."
Girls

"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."
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"It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous."
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"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."
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