Eric Sykes

Person · Open Library

Born

1923

Works

16

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1906-01-31

Active to

1983-07-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

109

Total plays

364

Eric Sykes, CBE (born 4 May 1923) is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in British radio and TV comedy in the latter 20th century and he frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight. <a href="https:/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,863x

2. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 44,354x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,569x

4. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 26,092x

5. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,501x

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Quotes

• “[To Jimmy Edwards] Don't forget we are talking to rebels.”
• “If you understand comedy, you understand life. Drama, death, tragedy – everybody has these. But with humour you've got all these, and the antidote. You have found the answer. It doesn't follow that because you are a good comedy writer, you're a happy fellow. I've got one of the most miserable faces in the world. I am only happy when I am working. If I'm not working, I get screwed up because my time is going, my life is slipping by.”
• “My theory is that we are all idiots. The people who don’t think they’re idiots — they’re the ones that are dangerous.”
• “I always say to young people, you can have the best script, be the funniest man, but if they don't laugh — you're not a comedian.”

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