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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.
- Knew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
- Problematic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. And that's really not a good instinct with a 'Daily Show' field piece, where it's supposed to be an interview.
- Horrendous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hate to meet myself at 15.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are friendlier in New York than London.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020