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Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of twiglets.
Tim Vine
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Tim Vine
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 4
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Timothy Mark Vine
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Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.
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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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One-armed butlers, they can take it but they can't dish it out
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So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said Analogue. I said No, just a watch.
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Black beauty - he's a dark horse.
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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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For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.
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Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
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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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Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.
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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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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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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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Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.
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If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.
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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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Velcro: what a rip-off.
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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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My mate asked me What do you think of voluntary work? I said I wouldn't do it if you paid me.
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