English - Comedian | May 8, 1973 -
Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.
Marcus Brigstocke
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I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.
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Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.
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I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.
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No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.
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I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.
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Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
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I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.
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There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than that. Maybe because of the kind of comedy I do. It's like a discussion, but I'm the one with the microphone.
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I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.
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All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.
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I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
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