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There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

~Denis Norden

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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.

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Topics: About Children Different Everything Find Holidays How Like Memory Perhaps Quite Remembered Talking You Your

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Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.

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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.

~Denis Norden

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Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

~Denis Norden

Topics: After Came Hard Laugh Make Then Those Word

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I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

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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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Everyone who appears in a scene gets paid.

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I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

~Denis Norden

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If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

~Denis Norden

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 6th, 1922

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