“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.”
The speaker positions their comedy within a lineage of absurdist humor, contrasting it with cringe-based styles, and emphasizes a spectrum where both surreal and silly elements coexist.
In simple terms: Absurdist comedy lineage vs cringe humor
Comedy can occupy a broad tonal range
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