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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

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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Funny Humor Natural Swan
Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Contentment Happiness Knowing Someone
Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Funny Humor Long Nostalgia
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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Littles Stupid Three
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
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
I try to appreciate the simple things. I’ve just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.
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Enjoyed Holiday Morning Son
I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars… I’m not bitter at all.
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Dollars Funny Humor Work
Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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Doubt Funny Humor Mind
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
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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Admire Funny Humor Hurt Ikea
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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Beautiful Guitar Tremendous Value Vintage
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 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
Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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Belief Funny Happened Humor
There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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Box Evil Funny Humor Suggestion

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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