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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.

Bill Bailey

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 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
Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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Funny God Humor Thank
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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Chocolate Despair Disappointment
Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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Males Pubs Three
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
In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we’re united and enjoy life – Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
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Enjoying Life Moving Strength
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 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
I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
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Department Funny Humor Organization
The reason we’d stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom.
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Biscuits Fire Funny Humor Spontaneous
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
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
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
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
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

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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