Marcus Brigstocke

Comedian

1973-05-08

Books by Marcus Brigstocke

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I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
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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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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'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.
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My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.
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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.
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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.
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