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Steve Coogan

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Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.


— Steve Coogan


#did #film #fun #i #integrity

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


#almost #am #america #appreciation #because

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.


— Steve Coogan


#drama #hearing #i #i see #like

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.


— Steve Coogan


#comedy #good #i #i think #like

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.


— Steve Coogan


#funny #laugh #people #premise #simple

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.


— Steve Coogan


#everyone #laughter #makes #noise #palpable

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.


— Steve Coogan


#disappointing #even #generally #great #great people

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.


— Steve Coogan


#elegant #hacking #into #manifestation #phone

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


#am #become #computers #generation #grow

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.


— Steve Coogan


#been #between #comedy #discomfort #drawn






About Steve Coogan

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Did you know about Steve Coogan?

It waits for the tabloids to dish the dirt and then it talks about the tabloids dishing the dirt while enjoying it themselves. He has also played himself three times on screen. Career
Coogan started out as a comic and mimic in Ipswich as well as doing voice-over work for adverts and impressions on Spitting Image.

In the early 1990s Coogan began creating original comic characters which he presented in stage shows; this led to him winning the 1992 Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe for his show with long-time collaborator John Thomson. On 22 November 2011 Coogan along with Hugh Grant gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on phone hacking favouring regulation of the press. Outside the UK Coogan is better known for his roles in films including 24 Hour Party People The Wind in the Willows Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Night at the Museum Tropic Thunder Hamlet 2 A Cock and Bull Story The Trip and The Other Guys.

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