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Dave Rowntree

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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Donna Grant

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Donna Grant

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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Donna Grant

"Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one."

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Donna Grant

"Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it."

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Donna Grant

"We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable."

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Donna Grant

"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."

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Donna Grant

"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."

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Donna Grant

"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"

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Donna Grant

"I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences."

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Dave Rowntree
"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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Dave Rowntree
"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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Dave Rowntree
"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."

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Dave Rowntree
"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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Dave Rowntree
"There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere."

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Dave Rowntree
"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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Dave Rowntree
"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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Dave Rowntree
"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea."

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Dave Rowntree
"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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Dave Rowntree
"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."

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