commenting on itself. he was like, "just write..." i mean, he didn't put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is i didn't need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually... changed my life. because i went, "0h, hold on, comedy is this matilda sits in culture as something that altered british culture a tiny bit, and i contributed to it and that made me think, "oh, i could be an artist, notjust a clown." i am just the luckiest human in the world. imean, i... and i am lucky that i was able to leverage some of my losses into gains to find ways to talk about the human condition. i mean, if you're writing about the human condition, which most artists are on some