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I’m good at saying sorry – so no one, because I’ve already said it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 September 2021 source ↗
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I don’t really owe anybody any apologies.
My children, because I spent the majority of their youth away from them as I’m the breadwinner and I had to pay the bills.
Back in the day, when comedy was crueller, my monologues were full of terrible jokes about people, and you can’t apologise because then you’re asking people to forgive you. Your punishment is to walk around knowing you said these horrible things.
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To my 17-year-old daughter Isabella, whom I described in an interview last year as "keen on maths".
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