I think the main thing I’d bring to Chewbacca is middle-aged spread. Chewbacca has looked after himself. Greg Davies Read Quote
The truth is, I should have never done teaching. I did teaching because I didn’t have the bottle to have a go at comedy. Whether there’s any gain to comedy is not for me to say. But certainly it was no loss to teaching. Greg Davies Read Quote
As anyone who’s done any acting will tell you, if you haven’t got a malicious evil streak, it’s such a joy to let one out. Greg Davies Read Quote
In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and painfully immature. Greg Davies Read Quote
I am often driven by necessity, rather than actually doing things like an adult. Greg Davies Read Quote
I got to the stage where I physically couldn’t carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity. Greg Davies Read Quote
Carla Lane’s ‘Butterflies’ seemed to be on in our house at all times when I was a kid, as did ‘The Good Life.’ But it was ‘Fawlty Towers that made me really sit up for the first time. Basil’s incandescent rage made me howl. Greg Davies Read Quote
In standup, the feedback is instantaneous, and if it fails, you know you’ll be off-stage and hiding in a short time. Greg Davies Read Quote
I tend to develop my rambling anecdotes by actually getting up and performing them. That’s the joy/horror of stand up – if you have the germ of an idea that you think might be funny, there is a way of finding out if it’s funny very quickly. Greg Davies Read Quote