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"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
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"Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it."

"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."

"I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy."

"It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy."

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

"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."

"He's sort of a homeless horse, I said.'I'm leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I won't be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I don't want that horse in my apartment.'Who would put a horse in an apartment? That's dumb.'Where's the horse staying now?'My apartment.'I can always count on you to brighten my day, Ranger said. And he disconnected."
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"No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic."

"Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not."

"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible."

"Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic."

"But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself."
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