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"The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero."
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"I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first."

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