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" Making people laugh is the only thing I've ever done naturally. "
Dominic Holland
Making
Only
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" Seeing a full room of punters queuing for my show is always heartening. "
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" 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. "
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" I even like the Scottish weather because, like everywhere in the U.K., you can't have great beauty without lots of rain. "
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" There is nothing quite as loud as the silence of an audience when a comedian is on stage. "
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Nothing
Stage
" 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! "
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" I find it pressurising coming to the Voodoo Rooms to do my hour of comedy. "
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" As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career. "
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" Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets. "
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" 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? "
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Long
Hell
" 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. "
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" Where I live in south London, it is a very Tory area, so a Labour vote is a wasted vote. My leanings would certainly be not to vote Tory. "
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London
Live
" I've written 'Eclipsed' as a funny story. It is completely bonkers. "
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Funny Story
Story
" Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed. "
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Young
" 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. "
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Tub
Bad
Enough
" 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. "
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Got
Chemotherapy
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" I'm a confident person next to the guy in the street, but if you go into the showbiz world, it seems the guys who are most successful are the most confident, and I don't think I fit into that category. "
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" It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors. "
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Natural
Will
Achieve
" 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. "
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City
Romantic
Hope
" 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. "
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Me
Gift
Good
" When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the way my dad used to laugh at the telly, and from a very early age, I had an idea of what was funny and why people laughed. "
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" It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever. "
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" Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned. "
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" 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. "
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" All kids should vote - it gives them the opportunity to whinge afterwards because you can't complain if you haven't voted. "
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Kids
Complain
" 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. "
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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. "
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Again
Back
Best
" When I do a show, I jot little notes for me to remember, and when the show is done and forgotten, I chuck them all over the car. My wife goes nuts. "
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Nuts
Remember
Wife
" I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success. "
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Tried
Many
TV
" I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian. "
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Brutal
Always
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