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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.

Bill Bailey

I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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Existentialist Funny Humor
Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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Clubs Fashion Marijuana
Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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Funny Humor Keyboard Loose Sound
Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
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Country Funny Humor Over People
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
It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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Animal Funny Humor Still Trained
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
But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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Country Funny Humor Shootest
Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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Cheese Funny Humor West
I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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Funny Humor Meat
So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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Beautiful Possess Things
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
I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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Concrete Funny Humor Pigs
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
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think ‘Oh my God, I’m James Blunt, what have I done?’
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Funny God Morning Sorry
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

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 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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