British Comedy Quotes

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.