I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
BILL BAILEYI tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you’ve got to admire the workmanship.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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I tend to go through periods worrying, “Where am I going, I can’t see a way out of this,” and it becomes quite stressful. But sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you’re just doing the odd appearance, you don’t know if it will carry on.
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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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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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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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.
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If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
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I try to appreciate the simple things. I’ve just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
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