As a writer or as a filmmaker you have to present yourself and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in or what you think is funny or what you think is sad or what you think is horrible.
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
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People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' – if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood who were funny without swearing were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
