I don't really find things funny unless they're de... -Lee Hall

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but no...

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just fr...

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My gift is to be funny....

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh....

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I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time wo...

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My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a ...

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