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My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

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When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

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The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

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And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

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When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

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When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

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On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.

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Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

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I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

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Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Comedian

Born: July 9th, 1957

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