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I’m terribly attention-seeking. It’s very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can’t exactly.

David Walliams

Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can’t rely on thinking “Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch.” You’ve got to try to work on the words.
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Mind Thinking Writing
There’s a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.
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Bars Magic Numbers
All human life can be found in an airport.
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Airports Found Human Life
We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
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Funny Things Thinking Trying
I’ve just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
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Length Thames Tired
I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.
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Helping Kids Others Want
I know somebody from university who’s called Phil Collins, and I think there’s something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
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Names Thinking Unfortunate
I don’t get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
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Delightful Fans Happy Mets Very
The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I’d say a food mixer. I’ve never used it, I don’t really know what they’re for.
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Cook Kitchen Morning Use
I am a huge fan of ‘Doctor Who.’
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Doctors Fans Huge
TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
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Confidence Internet Self Television
Social satire has been around since people have been around.
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People Satire Social
We’ve got 12-year-old boys dressing up as transvestites.
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Boys Dressing Transvestites Years
I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don’t think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.
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People Thinking Writing
There’s something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.
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Comedian Mean Scared
It’s strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.
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Sadness Strange Way

I’m terribly attention-seeking. It’s very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can’t exactly.

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I’m terribly attention-seeking. It’s very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can’t exactly.

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