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We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

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Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.

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I am a man who dreams of culture.

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We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

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People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.

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It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

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This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.

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Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.

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I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.

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I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Comedian

Born: May 4th, 1968

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