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I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.