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It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

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When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

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My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

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There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

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I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

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I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.

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I would hate to meet myself at 15.

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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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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

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Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Comedian

Born: April 23rd, 1977

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