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.
BILL BAILEYRelaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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I 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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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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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 women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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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 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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Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
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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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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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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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