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BILL BAILEYI 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.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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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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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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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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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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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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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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