Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, “Hullo, we’re out of milk. I say mother, where’s the milk?”
BILL BAILEYOrchestras 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’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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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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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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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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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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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
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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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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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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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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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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 spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people’s doors and running away. God that was a good game.
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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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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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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 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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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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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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