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

"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."

"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."

"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."

"I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way."
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"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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