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I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.
~ Stephen Merchant
Always
Been
Comedy
Different
Different Way
Fan
Gut
Hits
Intellect
Kind
Physical
Physical Comedy
Way
You
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I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I do feel that slightly. I have no religious beliefs so this is the ride. This is it. So I'm just like anyone, I suppose, trying to fill out the days in the most interesting way possible.
~ Stephen Merchant
Anyone
Before
Beliefs
Days
Die
Doing
Everything
Feel
Fill
Filling
Hours
Interesting
Interesting Way
Just
Like
Most
Now
Out
Possible
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Ride
Said
Slightly
Suppose
Trying
Up
Way
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John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'
~ Stephen Merchant
Always
Big
Bristol
Came
Chance
Did
Funny
Funny Way
Gangly
Grew
He
Hero
His
John
Me
Mine
Near
Physicality
Smart
Super
Tall
Think
Up
Used
Very
Way
Well
Where
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Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
~ Stephen Merchant
About
Comedy
Ending
England
Maybe
Mind
Note
Optimism
Perhaps
Sort
Veneer
Whereas
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My heroes - people like Woody Allen - were stand-up comedians. Therefore, I always felt I should give it a go.
~ Stephen Merchant
Allen
Always
Comedians
Felt
Give
Go
Heroes
Like
People
Should
Therefore
Were
Woody
Woody Allen
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My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them.
~ Stephen Merchant
Above
Actor
American
Angeles
Aspiring
Beautiful
Beautiful People
Dense
Hair
Los
Los Angeles
Men
Most
People
Right
Teeth
Them
Thick
Tower
Who
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it.
~ Stephen Merchant
Adding
Another
Appeal
Appears
Applause
Aspect
Attention
Began
Being
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Bit
Centre
Challenge
Did
Doing
Each
Each Night
Few
Get
Jigsaw
Jigsaw Puzzle
Kick
Night
Once
Out
Picture
Pieces
Puzzle
Right
Searching
Until
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People don't mind insulting the tall. We're supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinny. I'm very easy to psychoanalyse. I was a gangly, awkward teenager who could make people laugh and thought that was a way to be socially more comfortable.
~ Stephen Merchant
Awkward
Being
Comfortable
Could
Easy
Fine
Gangly
Insulting
Laugh
Make
Mind
More
People
Skinny
Socially
Supposed
Tall
Teenager
Thought
Very
Way
Who
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People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.
~ Stephen Merchant
BBC
Being
Does
Enough
Fame
From Time To Time
Honestly
Impress
Make
People
Same
Think
Time
Two
Warren
Warren Beatty
You
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Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty Python sketches? I can tell you now that doesn't work, so that film's wrong.
~ Stephen Merchant
Doors
Film
Gwyneth
Gwyneth Paltrow
Hannah
I Can
John
Monty
Monty Python
Now
Python
Remember
Sketches
Sliding
Tell
Work
Wrong
You
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The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.
~ Stephen Merchant
About
Abstract
Because
Become
Buying
Car
Find
Funny
Keep
Keep Talking
Like
Me
More
New
New Car
Objective
Out
Person
Reason
Say
Saying
Seems
Set
Sort
Stage
Talking
Thing
Wife
Word
Would
Would-Be
You
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There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they were just in the right place at the right time, they'd be married to Heidi Klum.
~ Stephen Merchant
Been
Culture
Down
Has-Been
Just
Married
Our
People
Place
Pop
Pop Culture
Right
Right Place
Right Time
Think
Throats
Time
Way
Were
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Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.
~ Stephen Merchant
Become
Being
Better
Class
Get
Go
Just
Known
Rejected
Things
TV
Well
Well Known
Women
You
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When I started to mention to people who know about such things, 'I'm doing this game, 'Portal 2', they got very excited, suddenly. More excited than anything I've ever done before, weirdly. Gamers are incredibly enthusiastic about the stuff they love.
~ Stephen Merchant
About
Anything
Before
Doing
Done
Enthusiastic
Ever
Excited
Game
Gamers
Got
Incredibly
Know
Love
Mention
More
People
Started
Stuff
Such Things
Suddenly
Than
Things
Very
Weirdly
Who
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When I was a teenager, I met a comedian who I admired, and he was very rude to me. That's why when people come up to me I try not to be rude. I don't want to name who he is, but it really put me off watching his stuff since.
~ Stephen Merchant
Admired
Come
Comedian
He
His
Me
Met
Name
Off
People
Put
Really
Rude
Since
Stuff
Teenager
Try
Up
Very
Want
Watching
Who
Why
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When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.
~ Stephen Merchant
Any
Become
Becomes
Champion
Concern
Could
Did
Easy
Knew
Me
More
No-One
Off
Office
Once
Others
Own
People
Slag
Some
Some People
Successful
Successful People
Us
Want
Were
Who
You
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You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I find that weird and depressing. I don't dislike the audience; it's just when I'm up there, they're in the darkness. There's just a sound of laughing or not. They're not 'people,' they're this big organism.
~ Stephen Merchant
Alive
Audience
Big
Complete
Darkness
Depressing
Dislike
Feel
Find
Hear
I Feel
Just
Laughing
Most
Organism
People
Saying
Some
Some People
Sound
Stage
Understand
Up
Weird
Where
You
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