British - Comedian | March 4, 1967 -
So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'
Tim Vine
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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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Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.
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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 was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
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Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
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Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
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So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
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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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I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.
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I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
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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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