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Acting In A Stage Play Is Like Working The Evening Shift In An Office.

The History Of The Relationship Between Comedy And Swimming Is Short Indeed. Of Course It Is Always Funny When Someone Falls Into Water, But That's About It.

The Best Way To Prepare For A Night Out With A Shakespearean Tragedy Is To Do A Bit Of Reading Up In The Afternoon, Eat A Light Supper - Perhaps Welsh Rarebit - And Then Arrive Early To Do Some Stretching Exercises In The Foyer Before Curtain-up.

Global Warming, The Ongoing Destruction Of The Planet, Third World Debt, The Uselessness Of The Railways, The Takeover By The Corporations, The Scary George Bush Person: All These Things Are Important And Should Be Animating Me Into Outrage. Yet Somehow They Do Not.

Ninety-eight Per Cent Of Laughter Is Nothing To Do With Jokes, Which Do Not Deserve To Bear The Weight Of All The Funny Stuff In The World.