Denis Norden Quotes
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The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.
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I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
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If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.
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And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.
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I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.
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A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.
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Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.
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What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?
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There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.
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It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.
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Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.
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He had the kind of handshake that ought never to be used except as a tourniquet.
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And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.
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Smetana certainly knew which side his bride was bartered.