I’m English, and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.
BILL BAILEYBut our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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I’m a vegetarian, I’m not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they’re nearly fish aren’t they.
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What I’d like to do now – well, what I’d like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, “Hullo, we’re out of milk. I say mother, where’s the milk?”
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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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I once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
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The reason we’d stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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