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Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.

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Tim Vine
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 4
Actor
Comedian
Television Presenter
Writer
Timothy Mark Vine
Punslinger
Black
Way
People
Exit
Signs
Holes
Humor
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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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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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I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.
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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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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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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'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.
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I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver.
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People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.
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One-armed butlers, they can take it but they can't dish it out
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I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics – I just got bronze.
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Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.
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Black beauty - he's a dark horse.
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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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