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Peter Shaffer

"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."

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"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."

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Akshay Vasu

"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."

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Akshay Vasu

"Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof."

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Akshay Vasu

"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy."

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Akshay Vasu

"I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year."

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Akshay Vasu

"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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Akshay Vasu

"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."

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Akshay Vasu

"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."

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Akshay Vasu

"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."

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Akshay Vasu

"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."

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Peter Shaffer
"I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life."

Life

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Peter Shaffer
"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses."

Experience

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Peter Shaffer
"I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything."

People

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Peter Shaffer
"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."

Comedy

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Peter Shaffer
"I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character."

Music

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Peter Shaffer
"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."

First

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Peter Shaffer
"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy."

Time

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Peter Shaffer
"You can't always let people do their own thing."

People

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Peter Shaffer
"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process."

Play

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Peter Shaffer
"Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish."

Love

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