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Denis Norden's Profile

Brief about Denis Norden: By info that we know Denis Norden was born at 1922-02-06. And also Denis Norden is English Writer.

Denis Norden Biography

Norden was born in Mare in London, on the February 6, in 1922. He graduated the City of London School.  He started working when he was still at school. At first he worked as a stagehand. When was only 17 years old, he was working in the cinema management.

His first work, as a writer were writings for troop shows during World War II.  As a writer, he has also worked for Dick Bentley and Frank Muir, for example: Jimmy Edwards was written for Frank Muir in 1947.

Muir was working on scripts with Norden. Their first script was for Take It From Here, radio show. They were working on: Whack-O from 1959 to 1960, 3 series of Faces of Jim during 1961-1963 and Balham, Gateway to the South. First two were for Jimmy Edwards and the third one was for the BBC 3rd Programme.  

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Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Tags: After, Hard, Laugh

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

Tags: Whole, Why, Work

Everyone who appears in a scene gets paid.

Tags: Everyone, Paid, Scene

Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.

Tags: Good, Liked, Work

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

Tags: Anyone, Days, Decision

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

Tags: Challenge, Funny, Writing

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Tags: Audience, Laughter, Show

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

Tags: Birds, Car, Force

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Tags: Funny, May, Thinks

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

Tags: Children, Memory, Talking

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

Tags: Comedy, Money, Song

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

Tags: Everest, Second, Shame

If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

Tags: Climb, Everest, Trouble

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

Tags: Impossible, Learning, Write

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Tags: Design, Easy, Perfect

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

Tags: Creativity, Done, Happy

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Tags: Experience, Job, Work

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Tags: Beauty, Hand, Pleasure

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Tags: Philosophy, Player, Service

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Tags: Design, Everyone, Often
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