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"I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny."
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"That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!"
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"But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know."
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"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."
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"After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny."
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"The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh."
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"Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day."
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"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."
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"It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny."
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"They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation."
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"Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight."
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"You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe."
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"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
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"It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really."
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"Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long."
Time
"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea."
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"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."
Animation
"Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it."
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"When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle."
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"I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster."
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"The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment."
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