Ronnie Corbett
Comedian United Kingdom 1930–2016
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It is all down to 'The Two Ronnies.' Those years with Ronnie Barker were the spine of my career.
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We go out of fashion but can also come back into fashion. So you've just got to hang around long enough until you are back in style.
I don't want to push barriers myself. You go to see Joan Rivers to see barriers being pushed. You watch 'Little Britain' to see barriers being pushed.
We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.
Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it might be - but you have to guess which bits.
I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.
I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.
You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive after lunch and do the programme at six.