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Dylan Moran (22)

Birth:	3rd November, 1971
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Filmmaker, Writer

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Dylan Moran is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books, and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run.

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  People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like “be realistic.”

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• I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

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• You try various things when you’re growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

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• You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

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• Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

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• We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

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• The truth is that I’m constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

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• The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

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• The characters can’t be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

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• Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

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• One thing that’s coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

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• It’s true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

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• In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

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• If I hadn’t done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

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• I’m actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

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• I thought The Office was good, though I didn’t think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

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• I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

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• I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don’t think I’d be very good at it.

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• I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren’t any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I’d give that a twist.

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• I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

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