If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.
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- I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.
- I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.
- I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.
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- The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.