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I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.

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Eric Bana
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: August 9
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