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When You've Been Doing Comedy For Forty Years, You Really Do Know Most Of The Jokes. And Even If You Don't Know A Specific Joke, You Can Pretty Much Guess What It's Going To Be.

Because, As We All Know, It’s Easier To Do Trivial Things That Are Urgent Than It Is To Do Important Things That Are Not Urgent, Like Thinking. And It’s Also Easier To Do Little Things We Know We Can Do Than To Start On Big Things That We’re Not So Sure About.

I Think You Can Write Very Good Comedy Without A Partner, But What I Love About It, Working With A Partner, Is That You Get To Places You'd Never Get On Your Own. It's Like When God Was Designing The World And Decided We Couldn't Have Children Without A Partner; It Was A Way Of Mixing Up The Genes So You'd Get A More Interesting Product.

Although I Had Good Hand-eye Coordination, I Was So Tall And Skinny And Muscularly Weak That I Just Was Not Well Coordinated. But What I Started To Do Quite Early On Was Watch Some Of The Great Old Silent Comedians, Like Laurel And Hardy And Chaplin, And Then Later On Harold Lloyd And Buster Keaton.

The Real Religion Is About The Understanding That If We Can Only Still Our Egos For A Few Seconds, We Might Have A Chance Of Experiencing Something That Is Divine In Nature. But In Order To Do That, We Have To Slice Away At Our Egos And Try To Get Them Down To A Manageable Size, And Then Still Work Some Practiced Light Meditation. So Real Religion Is About Reducing Our Egos, Whereas All The Churches Are Interested In Is Egotistical Activities, Like Getting As Many Members And Raising As Much Money And Becoming As Important And High-profile And Influential As Possible.