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I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

David Walliams

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
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
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
Social satire has been around since people have been around.
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People Satire Social
It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from ‘Little Britain’ on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It’s such fun watching those transformations.
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Character Fun Hard Work
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
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it’s over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
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Book Character Writing
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
My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London’s Lexington Street. It’s a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.
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Fun Healthy Years
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
I’ve just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.
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Length Thames Tired
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
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
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
We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
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Funny Things Thinking Trying
All human life can be found in an airport.
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Airports Found Human Life

I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

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I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

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