Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
BILL BAILEYI am a confectionery-based existentialist.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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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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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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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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I’m a vegetarian, I’m not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they’re nearly fish aren’t they.
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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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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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 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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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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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we’re united and enjoy life – Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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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 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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This shed does not contain me.
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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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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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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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