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Comedy Quotes by John Cleese
- Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
- Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?
- When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go…
- I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get…
- When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke,…
- I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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