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" You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. "
Dylan Moran
Through
Achieve
Realism
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" Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing. "
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" People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.' "
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" You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them. "
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" We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy. "
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" I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more. "
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" Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written. "
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" Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't. "
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Round
Sensible
" Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. "
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" There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens. "
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Literature
Always
Love
" I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated. "
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Belief
Believe
People
" I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me. "
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Me
Low
" Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.' "
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Children
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" America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of. "
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" When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves. "
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Walking
Trees
Door
" I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure. "
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Best
Feeling
Great
" Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway. "
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People
Walk
Me
" I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme. "
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Office
Very
Thought
" I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. "
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You
Alone
" If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads. "
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" I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it. "
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" If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that. "
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Long
Hell
" Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year. "
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More
Time
" 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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Doing
" I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me. "
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" I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. "
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Will
" The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line. "
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Think
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" A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention. "
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People
Men
Mad
" One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing. "
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" I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. "
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