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Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

Steve Coogan

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Steve Coogan
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
Actor
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Middleton
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Stephen John Coogan
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I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.
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In England, I've done a whole bunch of stuff where I just make a complete ass of myself. I've been doing it for 20 years, so I just gravitate toward it anyway. I'd rather do that than do the stuff where I'm supposed to be trying to look cool in some way. It's more interesting to me.
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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 did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
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When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who propagated an illegal war on the rest of the world. So that is where my morality stands.
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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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All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
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