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.’
BILL BAILEYLive comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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I think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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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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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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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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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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