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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
As told to Catherine Shoard

Rob Delaney: ‘The average British citizen is funnier than the average American’

Rob Delaney … ‘Good-looking? That’s in the eye of the beholder.’
Rob Delaney … ‘Good-looking? That’s in the eye of the beholder.’ Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

You have no superpowers in Deadpool. If you could have one superpower in real life, what would it be? TopTramp
Time travel. Even if I could go back 15 years and walk around the neighbourhood we’re in right now, that would just be amazing. And then do 30 years, 80 years, 1,000 years; I would never get tired of that. Then I would try to climb a pyramid. I don’t know if they let you do that or if they were guarded. Or go to an early Stevie Wonder concert.

If someone were to write you a lead in your own superhero movie, what would that role’s power be? What would they be called? Would you like a catchphrase? And who would play his sidekick/patsy? ShivvieMullen
Time travel guy, but I wouldn’t do anything helpful. I would just go to Stevie Wonder concerts and climb pyramids. And they’d be like: “That guy screwed up! My mom wasn’t born because instead of killing Mussolini or Hitler, that guy decided to climb a pyramid.” So they would chase me through time. My catchphrase would be: “Hmm, this is terrific,” right before I get shot by a time warrior. Samuel L Jackson would be my boss, who’d operate the time travel software and chastise me regularly. His catchphrase would be: “Come on, man! Again?!”

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