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"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."
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"Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant."

"I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes."

"I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this."

"I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry."

"This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included."

"My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe."

"I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once."
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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."

"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
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