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“The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Jobs #Stupid #Simple
“If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Agendas #Goes On #Accepting
“I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Stage
“Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Host #Internet #Shows
“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.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Thinking #Comedy #Kind
“I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Thinking #People #Storm
“I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Comedian #Roles #Actors
“No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Want #Lasts #Enough
“The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Successful #Hardest
“I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Thinking #Self #Feelings
“I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#People #Unhappiness #Compare
“I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Comic #Touring #Hotel
“And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Giving Up #Writing #Creating
“Jim Henson was an absolute genius.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Genius
“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.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Feelings #Guilt #Done
“Never Google yourself. Seriously, don't!”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Google
“If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Kilts #Want #Scottish
“Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Nuts #Allergies #Exposure
“I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Self #Issues #Guy
“I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Self #Determined #Pompous
“I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Atheist #Would Be #Default
“My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Comedy #Masters #Trade
“I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Hate #Airports #Minutes
“Britain is obsessed with political correctness.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Political #Obsessed #Britain
“I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Interesting #Beijing #Shanghai
“I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Thinking #Errors #Interesting
“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.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Drama #Writing #School
“I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Ideas #Feelings #Style
“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.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Beautiful #Sight #Sea
“I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.”
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Mind #Cardigans #Being Cool

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