Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 23, 1895

Question. Is it easy to become a dramatist?
Answer. As easy as anything else.
Q. What are the requisites?
A. A West-end theatre, a first-rate troupe of artists, a trained audience, and a personality.
Q. What do you mean by a trained audience?
A. An assembly accustomed to accept everything as wit, and to laugh at anything.
Q. Would such a gathering consider it amusing for someone to say Flirting with one's husband is quite indelicate: it is like washing one's clean linen in public ?
A. Certainly; and would find much to admire in a dialogue given over for something like ten minutes to an exhaustive consideration of muffins.
Q. And what do you mean by a personality?
A. More or less—an insouciant manner, and a rather startling button-hole.
Q. Does the personality require a speech or a cigarette?