COMEDIANS AT HOME
MRS. WILL HAY'S VIEWS Mrs. Will Hay, wife of schoolmastercomedian Will Hay, from whom she obtained a decree of judicial separation in the divorce court iu England recently, said: " I have spent my life mixing with comedians and their wives. They are a doleful people. " Most of them are not a bit funny at home; they are usually terribly solemn. Comedians spend so much time being funny on the stage—often when they don't feel a bit humorous —that it is a relief to drop into an armchair by the fireside and be quiet. " My husband has a scientific mind. He would often sit silently for hours—thinking. I am sure it was a relief to him not to have to be funny at home. Then there is the business of thinking out new gags and sketches. A joke that will set an audience rocking with joy will not raise a smile in a comedian's home, because jokes are business there."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 14 (Supplement)
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