Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.[1] (wikipedia)
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.
Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.
When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.
Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.
So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.
And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.