Author: Steve Coogan

Work

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing or play it too much for laughs that can work for a sketch it will sell some gags but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler – you can be impressed by it but it's not going to touch you in any way.

Steve Coogan

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing or play it too much for laughs that can work for a sketch it will sell some gags but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler – you can be impressed by it but it's not going to touch you in any way.

Success

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Steve Coogan

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Funny

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny people laugh. If it's not they don't.

Steve Coogan

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny people laugh. If it's not they don't.

Funny

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Steve Coogan

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Famous

Actually bizarrely in America I get more appreciation from the odd unusual stuff I've done almost because I'm not if you like famous in America as I am in England.

Steve Coogan

Actually bizarrely in America I get more appreciation from the odd unusual stuff I've done almost because I'm not if you like famous in America as I am in England.

Computers

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Steve Coogan

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Car

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching like a car crash.