I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. – Brendan Coyle
My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didnt enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef. – Brendan Coyle
I left school at 16 but I wish Id gone to university – I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I dont think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision. – Brendan Coyle
You cant be a casual observer of something humorous – you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work. – Brendan Coyle
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isnt fiction at all. – Theodore Sturgeon