How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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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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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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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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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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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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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars… I’m not bitter at all.
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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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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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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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