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 MONKHOUSEMy wife was fitted with a coil. For about 18 months I hated it! She used to pick up CB signals.
More Bob Monkhouse Quotes
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I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard.
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When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?
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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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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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I can still enjoy sex at 74 – I live at 75, so it’s no distance.
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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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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 father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.
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What do gardeners do when they retire?
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I got my start in silent radio.
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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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Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!
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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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Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents?
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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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