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Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.