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.
BILL BAILEYContentment is knowing you’re right
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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What I’d like to do now – well, what I’d like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.
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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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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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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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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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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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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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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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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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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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This shed does not contain me.
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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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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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