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" I must say that I am rather partial to funny dog videos. "
Dominic Holland
Dog
I Am
Funny
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" I am not a natural show-off. Some of the monster comedians are terrifyingly assured, and I don't have that, and that's held me back. "
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Me
Back
I Am
" My Fiat Multipla is bright green - it looks like a frog. I look like a monkey, so between the two of us, we are a hideous prospect. It's the ugliest car on the road but the most practical, and I would live and die by it. "
Dominic Holland
Die
Live
Road
" It's not cool to be star-struck. "
Dominic Holland
Cool
" In my career, all my most important breaks have come from Edinburgh. Winning awards, being reviewed, bagging my BBCR4 series and the chance to tour has all come from Edinburgh, which begs the question, why the hell have I left it so long to come back? "
Dominic Holland
Important
Long
Hell
" Seeing a full room of punters queuing for my show is always heartening. "
Dominic Holland
Show
Always
Full
" Doing stand-up is not normal. People fear public speaking above all other things, and I am no different. "
Dominic Holland
Normal
I Am
People
" Because it's such a good car, I think we'll have a Multipla till the kids leave home, which is tragic because I could probably afford a really nice car! "
Dominic Holland
Car
Good
Home
" I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire. "
Dominic Holland
General
Wit
Professional
" Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money straight away; you've got journalists in. "
Dominic Holland
Comedy
Better
You
" I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best. "
Dominic Holland
Best
School
Try
" I might get a break again, and I might get back on telly. If I don't, I'll just keep doing stand-up and doing the best gigs I can. "
Dominic Holland
Again
Back
Best
" Growing up, I was always enthralled by Ronnie Barker. He made my dad howl with laughter, which always intrigued me, and he had the rare gift of being as good a performer as he was a writer. "
Dominic Holland
Me
Gift
Good
" It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors. "
Dominic Holland
Natural
Will
Achieve
" My story is comic because I've spent vast amounts of effort trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter and made no direct effort on making my son a movie actor. "
Dominic Holland
Story
Trying
Hollywood
" Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned. "
Dominic Holland
Comedy
Stand-Up Comedy
Stand-Up
" A barrel of laughs should be enough, but it's not. A good review is official and endures. A bad one is like a tub of Flora. It spreads easily and lasts for the whole festival. "
Dominic Holland
Tub
Bad
Enough
" When I phoned up and said, 'Mum, I'm doing a 52-date national tour with Eddie Izzard,' she said 'That's nice, dear. How are you?' "
Dominic Holland
She
You
Doing
" For comics, Edinburgh makes no financial or medical sense. Get an audience; that's the first task. Once the punters are in, simply make them laugh for an hour, and then sweat on the critics. "
Dominic Holland
Task
Financial
Laugh
" I just talk about the funny things in my life, and the idea is that my observations reflect the lives of my audience - so people are really laughing at themselves. This is the theory, anyway, and I am aware that in print, that it doesn't appear to be very funny. But it is, and I am definitely funny. "
Dominic Holland
I Am
My Life
People
" The garden is something I always try to get into, but it always beats me. "
Dominic Holland
Try
Garden
Me
" No one likes a pushy parent, and, 'pride' being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when creating a show about my eldest son, Tom, better known as Peter Parker and even better known as Marvel's new 'Spider-Man.' "
Dominic Holland
Son
Better
Creating
" The house I've bought in London, the holidays, everything has been bought from making people laugh, and if you'd said to me when I was 14 that's how I was going to make my living, I would have smiled from ear to ear. "
Dominic Holland
Me
You
People
" Apathy in youth culture is pretty stark. "
Dominic Holland
Youth
Stark
Pretty
" I am the first to admit that I have never been a household name. "
Dominic Holland
Admit
Been
Never
" I got heckled by a woman, and my riposte fixed upon her unfortunate hair texture, only for her to remove her wig and reveal to the room the horrors of chemotherapy. "
Dominic Holland
Got
Chemotherapy
Woman
" As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career. "
Dominic Holland
Wonder
Should
Career
" My job is to make people laugh. If I've upset them instead, then I haven't done my job properly. "
Dominic Holland
Done
Laugh
Job
" I even like the Scottish weather because, like everywhere in the U.K., you can't have great beauty without lots of rain. "
Dominic Holland
Like
Beauty
You
" Edinburgh is a world city, visited throughout the year for its beauty and history, but in August, it is the City of Hope. There is something very exciting and romantic about performers of all shapes and sizes, honing their stuff for the biggest arts festival in the world. "
Dominic Holland
City
Romantic
Hope
" I've been recognised in garages. I'll be paying for my petrol, and I'll see this guy looking at me, thinking, 'Is it him?' Then he'll be looking at my car: 'No, he couldn't be driving that car.' I've actually had two people say to me:,'Hello Dominic, I thought you might have a better car than that, mate!' "
Dominic Holland
Looking
Thought
Thinking