Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
BILL BAILEYOr, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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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 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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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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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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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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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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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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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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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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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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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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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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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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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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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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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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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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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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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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