ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.
It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.
It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.
If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.
