Zitat des Tages von Chris Lilley:
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'
I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.
There are bits of me in all my characters.
People were making fun of redheads before I came along.
I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.
I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.
I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.
I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.
I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.
I think surprises make TV entertaining.
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.
When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.
Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'
I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.
People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
British comedy fans go crazy.