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You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

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Dylan Moran
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 3
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Dylan William Moran
Elastic
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I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.
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If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.
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We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
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You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
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[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.
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What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They can't even walk straight.
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You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!
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You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.
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I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
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All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive
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I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.
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I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.
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Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!
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I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.
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I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters.
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I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.
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I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
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Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.
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It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.
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Tequila? It's not even a drink. It's a way for having the cops around without using a phone.
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