If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.