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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.

Bill Bailey

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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Bonus College Fun Paid Suddenly Teaching
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?”
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Funny Humor Milk Mother
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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Existentialist Funny Humor
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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Funny Harp Humor Long
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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Appearance Gigs Littles Odd Television
The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
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Bafflingly Jump Paralyzing Philosophical Spider
Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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Funny Humor Outcome Three
At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
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College Jobs Thinking Time Whole
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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Corresponding Funny Humor Long Thinking
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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Confused Harmless Limp Thing Wole
There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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Box Evil Funny Humor Suggestion
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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Country Foxes Funny Knocking Running Scrambling
Stupid National Anthem… Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? “Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit.”
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Fighting Funny Humor Message Pineapple Stupid
Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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Earning Fluctuate Gigs Lasts Profession
Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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Cheese Funny Humor West
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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Quite Sometimes Stressful Way Worry

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