3 December 2020 Steve Coogan I’m just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That’s not to say that there’s something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can’t stop watching, like a car crash.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny, people laugh. If it’s not, they don’t.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan I am of the very last generation who didn’t have computers at school. As we grow old we’ll become something of an aberration.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I’ve done, almost because I’m not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don’t know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny, people laugh. If it’s not, they don’t.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you’ve immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
3 December 2020 Steve Coogan The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
