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I got my first Mac in 1984. I've got an Airbook, iPad, iPhone, the lot. I love that blend of technology, creativity, and design.
Ben Miller
Love
Technology
Creativity
First
Design
Mac
Blend
Got
iPad
iPhone
Lot
On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
Ben Miller
Death
Pet
Paradise
Nothing
Embarrassing
Had
React
Which
Lizard
Science is a hobby, and I'm really into it, but it's not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make people laugh. Science, for me, is probably a bit like Danny Baker's love of football or Rod Stewart's obsession with train sets.
Ben Miller
Love
Me
Science
People
Comedy
Job
Sets
Bit
Danny
Laugh
About
Football
Obsession
Like
Baker
Make
Learn
Rod
Train
Hobby
Really
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
Ben Miller
Success
Myself
Jokes
Comedy
Thought
Everyone
Distinguish
Telling
Degrees
Alternative
Doing
Just
Differing
I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.
Ben Miller
Science
Book
Writing
Ways
Over
Sort
Years
Friends
Explaining
Found
Things
I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.
Ben Miller
Comedy
Way
Slightly
Ourselves
French
Sort
Huge
Huge Fan
Than
Often
Different
Fan
Realism
Different Way
Play
Necessarily
I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
Ben Miller
Learning
French
Speaking
Enjoyed
There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.
Ben Miller
Wonderful
Opportunity
Looking
About
Something
Investigation
Checking
Sort
Witnesses
Motive
Stories
Means
It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
Ben Miller
Comedy
Year
Out
Die
Going
Theory
Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
Ben Miller
Science
World
Comedy
Way
Would
About
Like
Same
Really
Things
I get dissatisfied really easily, and I have to constantly keep moving; I have to constantly keep doing things. I find it very hard to switch off.
Ben Miller
Keep Moving
Easily
Find
Constantly
Doing
Off
Very
Get
Moving
Really
Hard
Keep
Switch
Things
Dissatisfied
Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.
Ben Miller
Life
Father
My Life
Important
Definitely
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Being
The Most Important
Thing
More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.
Ben Miller
People
Enjoy
Laugh
More
More Than Anything
Making
Than
Anything
I'm always a bit wary when people say in interviews, 'I'm at the happiest place of my life that I've ever been.' I think, 'Really? Are you?' Life is a mix, isn't it?
Ben Miller
Life
You
People
Life Is A
My Life
Think
Interviews
Say
Bit
People Say
Always
Mix
Been
Place
Happiest
Really
Wary
Ever
Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.
Ben Miller
Will
Songs
Over
His
Any
Listen
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
Ben Miller
Buy
Mind-Set
Say
Shameful
Never
Got
Forks
Really
Why
Grown-Up
Thing
My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
Ben Miller
Family
Me
Father
Joke
Everything
Around
Always
Huge
Huge Influence
Influence
Clowning
Turned
Children basically need one thing: to be played with.
Ben Miller
One Thing
Children
Thing
Played
Basically
Need
I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
Ben Miller
All Night
Stay
Able
About
Bed
How
Go
Tragic
Up
Being
Used
Now
Early
Night
I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?
Ben Miller
Life
Sometimes
Hair
Wig
About
Since
Bald
Dear
Still
Been
Wonder
Get
Going
Hanging
Should
I'm not a 'suffer in silence' type; I'm a 'let's throw money at the problem' type - I've done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I've never actually had analysis, but I'd like to try that sometime.
Ben Miller
Silence
Problem
Money
Try
Analysis
Type
Sometime
Throw
Never
Had
Like
Done
Psychotherapy
Suffer
Actually
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into.
Ben Miller
Work
Family
You
Internet
Father
Enthusiasm
Birmingham
Our
Several
Daring
No Idea
Through
Had
Stems
Idea
House
Were
His
Lecturer
Families
American
Did
Getting
Literature
American Literature
Who
Thing
Early
University
I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.
Ben Miller
Business
Few
Extra
Add
Back
Pleasure
Days
Always
Go
Often
Even
I adored 'Drop the Dead Donkey.' That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash.
Ben Miller
Time
Drop
Channel
Defined
Inventive
Adored
Dead
Leash
Off
Donkey
Show
I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.
Ben Miller
Important
Indecisive
About
Something
More
Am
Less
Things
Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.
Ben Miller
Life
You
Life Is A
Mystery
Got
Go
Just
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