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- If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over…
- 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,…
- Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
- When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
- Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.
- 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…
- You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on…
- I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that…
- Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
- I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American…
- We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the…
- 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,…
- You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
- You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident…
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