English - Writer | February 6, 1922 -
And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.
Denis Norden
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I prefer radio to television. Radio is a dialogue; television is a monologue. In radio, you have to interact - they put the words in your head; you build the pictures in your mind. To that extent, it is more engaging than television.
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I've written not milestones of cinema but millstones.
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My father made bridal dresses, which he sold wholesale, and always wanted me to join him. He looked upon what I did as precarious and frivolous - except that he loved it when my name was in the papers.
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Bob Monkhouse, Galton and Simpson, Spike Milligan and I all started around the same time with an enormous advantage: working to an audience all of whom had shared an awful, common experience - the war.
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Is the opposite of light entertainment meant to be dark and heavy?
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You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable to do in bed is r-e-a-d.
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I'm not a great fan of the modern style of personal agonising, which crops up a bit too often for my liking.
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I recognise the pure gold that runs in Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's work for 'Outnumbered' on TV. And on radio, I really enjoy John Finnemore.
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Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.
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You can't have your kayak and heat it.
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We saw more of each other than we did of our wives. We wrote everything together. But how long can you go on doing that? How long can you go on being half an entity?
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