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Denis Norden

"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."

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Donna Grant

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Donna Grant

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

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Donna Grant

"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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Denis Norden
"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."

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Denis Norden
"It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered."

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Denis Norden
"And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out."

Fun

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Denis Norden
"There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car."

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Denis Norden
"Frank liked administrative work and was good at it."

Work

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Denis Norden
"If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it."

Laughter

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Denis Norden
"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."

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Denis Norden
"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."

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Denis Norden
"The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up."

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Denis Norden
"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."

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