I’m rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I’ve regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.
BOB MONKHOUSEWith my wife it was sex, sex, sex…Yes, three times in 35 years.
More Bob Monkhouse Quotes
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When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?
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Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can’t fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
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My wife said, ‘Can my mother come down for the weekend?’ So I said, ‘Why?’ And she said, ‘Well, she’s been up on the roof two weeks already.’
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I saw a specialist who asked me ‘Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?’. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
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I’d never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much.
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I’ll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven’t done something even mildly creative.
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My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.
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What do gardeners do when they retire?
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Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents?
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I got my start in silent radio.
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Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
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A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot’s ribs and demanded: ‘Take me to the canaries’.
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I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.
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They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now.
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My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.
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