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Article: Mike Myers Always Favored Comedies
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- May 28, 1999
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AP Online
05-28-1999
Mike Myers Always Favored Comedies
NEW YORK (AP) -- Yeah, baby. Even as a boy growing up in Canada, Mike Myers always wanted to write and act in comedies.
``I liked how the house felt when a good comedy was on,'' says the star of the upcoming sequel, ``Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.'' ``I liked the feeling of a room laughing. My dad was a big laugher.''
His father would wake him up in the middle of the night to watch Peter Sellers comedies, he says in the latest Rolling Stone magazine. Myers says Sellers influenced his comedy.
He also says that a line from the play ``Equus'' describes his work ethic: ``Relentlessly self-improving ...
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