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It was only in the second year of my Ph.D. that I started acting. I wasn't in school plays or anything; I was in bands, but I wasn't cool. There's no such thing as a cool physics person, is there?
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I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
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You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.
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Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.
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I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'
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I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We don't all have to understand complex theories, but we should have a working knowledge, like knowing your way round the engine of your car.
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Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.
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I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?
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Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.
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I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.
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I'm obsessed with coffee.
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I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
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I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.
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As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
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It's great to do stuff that 'gets you out of the house' in a way - that gets you to meet other people!
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I'm not a 'suffer in silence' type; I'm a 'let's throw money at the problem' type - I've done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I've never actually had analysis, but I'd like to try that sometime.
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