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But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Steve Coogan
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Steve Coogan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
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Stephen John Coogan
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Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.
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I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.
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Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.
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I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.
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The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.
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Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.
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I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.
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What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
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All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
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I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.
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Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.
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The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
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Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.
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I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.
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I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.
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I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.
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I want my work to be judged, not me.
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I am lucky to be in a profession that is not age dependent.
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I don't go to premieres, unless I'm contractually bound to.
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I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
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