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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. "
Brother
Think
People
" 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. "
Get
Childlike
You
" Black beauty - he's a dark horse. "
Black
He
Dark
" Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is. "
Comedy
Than
Talk
" For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. "
Real Life
Real
Pun
" If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac. "
You
Pun
" 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. "
Well
Story
Narrative
" I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself. "
Trying
Myself
Small
" I love acting, but it's all just a bonus. "
Bonus
Acting
I Love
" I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues. "
Play
Kind
Rock
" 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. "
Every Day
Coffee
Think
" I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again. "
Tell
Again
Holiday
" I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy. "
Sea
Meat
Day
" I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. "
Put
Reading
History
" I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. "
Date
Out
Know
" My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped. "
Psychiatrist
DVD
Put
" 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. "
House
You
Soul
" 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. "
Down
Back
Me
" Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. "
Seconds
Trick
Out
" One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it. "
Like
You
See
" 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. "
Funny
Me
People
" People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff. "
Looking
Busy
Like
" So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' "
Voice
You
Got
" So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' "
You
Want
Up
" So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.' "
Up
You
Local
" 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.' "
Said
Me
You
" So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.' "
You
Me
Look
" So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red. "
Red
Up
Chinese
" Velcro: what a rip-off. "
Velcro
Rip-Off
" With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke. "
Confidence
Laugh
Need
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