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Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

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Tim Vine
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 4
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Timothy Mark Vine
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People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
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So I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said 'I want to buy an ice-cream'. He said Hundreds & thousands?' I said 'We'll start with one.' He said 'Knickerbocker glory?' I said 'I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes.'
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This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, I want you to trace someone for me.
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So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'
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My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.
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You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter.
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I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.
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Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.
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You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.
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Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.
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As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.
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I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it.
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I bought some Armageddon cheese today, and it said on the packet 'Best Before End...'
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My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.
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So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.'
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I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.
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I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.
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So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.
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I went to the doctor. I said to him I'm frightened of lapels. He said, You've got cholera.
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