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Paul Merton

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Are You Trying to Make It Sound Like You've Never Said It Before?

"It's much better to come up with the fresh stuff all the time, because then you're not and always, that's more fun for yourself," he says. "I thinkthhe when the art of stand up comedy, when i was doing that, one of the great tricks was to try and make it sound like you'd never said it before." 'After a while, i had one routine about a policeman experiencing an hallucinagenic drug, and after a while i just couldn't make it work any more,' he adds.

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