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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."

"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."

"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."

"I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes."

"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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"I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it."

"The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty."

"I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist."

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."

"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."
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