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I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
John Cleese
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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.
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If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.
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I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.
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Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.
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The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
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It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
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The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
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I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
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I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.
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When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.
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The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.
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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.
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