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“I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I…” quote by Ian McLeod — Download Open image

“I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.”

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