years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.
John CleeseI started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.
John CleeseWe don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.
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