Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
BOB MONKHOUSEThey all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now.
More Bob Monkhouse Quotes
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When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?
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My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.
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I can still enjoy sex at 74 – I live at 75, so it’s no distance.
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With my wife it was sex, sex, sex…Yes, three times in 35 years.
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I got my start in silent radio.
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I’m rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I’ve regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.
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My wife said, ‘Can my mother come down for the weekend?’ So I said, ‘Why?’ And she said, ‘Well, she’s been up on the roof two weeks already.’
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Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!
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What do gardeners do when they retire?
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I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard.
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I came home and found that my son was taking drugs – my very best ones too!
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I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.
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I saw a specialist who asked me ‘Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?’. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
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My wife was fitted with a coil. For about 18 months I hated it! She used to pick up CB signals.
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Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can’t fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
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