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I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would.
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People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.
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I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
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I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.
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You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
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I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.
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Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.
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It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
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I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
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I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
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I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.
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I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.
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Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
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When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
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Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.
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I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.
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The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
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Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
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If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.
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You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'
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I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
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Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
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I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
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Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.
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If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
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Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.
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I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
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The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
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I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
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You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
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There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.
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Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
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Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
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