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Josh Widdicombe

Stand-up wasn’t a calling. It was more like, ‘What can I do that isn’t going to make me really depressed?’

– Josh Widdicombe

Josh Widdicombe

I’d had a variety of jobs – shop assistant, writer of children’s magazines – but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

– Josh Widdicombe

Josh Widdicombe

It’s rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

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Josh Widdicombe

I wasn’t into making classmates laugh – or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn’t too clever but I wasn’t in the bottom group. I wasn’t loud but I wasn’t quiet. I wasn’t a bully and I wasn’t bullied.

– Josh Widdicombe

Josh Widdicombe

I think when you start comedy there are some real advantages to being single and in a low-paid job. You have nothing to lose. It’s not like I was a well-paid lawyer when I began. I was earning so little I was able to sell myself to it.

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Josh Widdicombe

I don’t buy into the phrase ‘comedy genius.’ It’s like football; you can have the talent, but 90 per cent is hard work, the other ten per cent is trying to make it all look as natural as possible.

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Josh Widdicombe

Having a child brings with it greater responsibility. It makes you want to work more because you worry for the future.

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Josh Widdicombe

What I’ve learnt from ‘Friends’ is don’t let the characters get together because then it won’t be as good afterwards.

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Josh Widdicombe

I’ll tell you what ‘The Simpsons’ is really good at. They’ll describe something, you don’t see it, and it’s funnier when you describe it.

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Josh Widdicombe

I grew up watching ‘The Office’ and ‘Father Ted’ and all the British things at that time – ‘The Royle Family’ – and the American ones like ‘Friends,’ ‘Frasier’ and ‘The Simpsons.’

– Josh Widdicombe

Josh Widdicombe

Even in something surreal like ‘Father Ted,’ everything has to logically follow, everything has to lead one to another. The moment the logic of a situation doesn’t work then you might as well not bother because people have signed out.

– Josh Widdicombe

Josh Widdicombe

Write about what you know, that’s what I say.

– Josh Widdicombe

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