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"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."
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"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."
Humor
"Frank liked administrative work and was good at it."
Work
"There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car."
Car
"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."
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"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
"If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it."
Laughter
"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."
Work
"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
Decision-Making
"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."
Family
"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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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."
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"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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Personal Development
"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"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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"Remember these two things: play hard and have fun."
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"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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"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."
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