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“When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.”

Paul Merton · Funny

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I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

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