Don't Try to be Funny.
"Being funny is inexplicable — you either are or you aren't. All comies must think they are funny or they wouldn't go to all that trouble but I'm quite sure it is fatal to be funny. I think you have to appear not to know. 'This is me being funny' is a terrible attitude and for me dries up all the springs of good humour." — Joyce Grenfell speaking on laughter in a B.B.C. programme.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 15, 23 April 1952, Page 5
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78Don't Try to be Funny. Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 15, 23 April 1952, Page 5
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