Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
BILL BAILEYMy wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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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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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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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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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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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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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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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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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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