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 I can`t swim. I can`t drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake? Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.
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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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If I hadn`t done this I might have ended up digging the roads.
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We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
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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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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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It`s its own bioculture, I just leave it alone... we sleep in separate rooms. (On his hair)
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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.
(brainyquote.com)
I`m actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
(brainyquote.com)
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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People walk past me in the street and look at me, but because they think I work in their office and they can`t remember my name.
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I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
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I don`t do drugs. If I want a rush I just get out of a chair when I`m not expecting it.
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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.
(brainyquote.com)
I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
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I don`t want to do the same thing over and over again.
(brainyquote.com)
Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
(brainyquote.com)
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
(brainyquote.com)
The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.
(brainyquote.com)
Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.
(brainyquote.com)
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.
(brainyquote.com)
The truth is that I`m constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
(brainyquote.com)
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
(brainyquote.com)
I don`t really think of myself as an actor.
(brainyquote.com)
The characters can`t be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
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Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it`s quite theatrical.
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Trivia
Is a fan of the British musician PJ Harvey and often uses her song '50ft Queenie' as intro music at his shows.
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Met his future 'Black Books' co-star, Bill Bailey, many years earlier on the UK comedy circuit.
(imdb.com)
He was inspired by Ardal O'Hanlon to start in comedy when he saw him at Comedy Cellar in Dublin in the early 1990s.
(imdb.com)
Made his acting debut in the 1998 BBC series 'How Do You Want Me?' opposite Charlotte Coleman.
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Perrier Award for Comedy Winner, Edinburgh Festival Fringe [1996]
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Met his future wife, Elaine, at The Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh (where she was working at the time, and where he was performing.) The venue was sadly destroyed in the Old Town fire of December 2002.
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Made his US television debut on June 25 2004 on "The Late Show With David Letterman".
(imdb.com)
Started life as a stand-up comic in 1992 after a visit to the Comedy Cellar in Dublin. Won the prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny?' award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993, aged just 21. Won the festivals top prize (The Perrier Award) three years later.
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Went to school with fellow Irish comic (and Perrier Award winner) Tommy Tiernan.
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Dylan was personally recommended to Simon Pegg for the role of David in 'Shaun of the Dead' by producer Nira Park (who also produced Dylan's show 'Black Books' and Simon's show 'Spaced'.) Pegg claimed he wasn't sure Moran was right for the part at first, but he saw Dylan's audition tape and he "nailed it". (Dylan himself wasn't intially sure he was right for the part either and actually suggested they cast comedian David Walliams instead.)
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As of 2005 he and fellow Navan man Tommy Tiernan are the only So you Think Your Funny Winners to go on to win The Perrier award during its entire 25 year run at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. As of 2006 they will be the only ones to do so under the name of the Perrier. It will now become known as the If.Comeddie Awards.
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Called the Perrier Award (which he won in 1996) "a load of media rubbish". He thought fellow comedian (and future 'Black Books' co-star) Bill Bailey should have won it.
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Has written numerous articles for The Irish Times newspaper.
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Is very well-read. Some of his favourite authors include Don DeLillo, SJ Perelmam and JB Morton.
(imdb.com)
Got married in London on the day of Princess Diana's funeral, in a church just around the corner.
(imdb.com)
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