Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
BILL BAILEYThree 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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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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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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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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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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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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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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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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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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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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This shed does not contain me.
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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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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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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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