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Val Guest

"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."

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"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."

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A.E. Samaan

"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."

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"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."

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A.E. Samaan

"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

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A.E. Samaan

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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A.E. Samaan

"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."

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A.E. Samaan

"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"

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A.E. Samaan

"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."

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A.E. Samaan

"There's always been physical suffering in comedy."

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A.E. Samaan

"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."

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Val Guest
"I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond."

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Val Guest
"No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such."

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Val Guest
"Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing."

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Val Guest
"And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond."

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Val Guest
"At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow."

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Val Guest
"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."

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Val Guest
"Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know."

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Val Guest
"We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself."

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Val Guest
"And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years."

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Val Guest
"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis."

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