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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. "
Dominic Holland
Vote
London
Live
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" How I've fed my kids over the years is by doing stand-up comedy in clubs. "
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" I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick. "
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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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" I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Apathy in youth culture is pretty stark. "
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" 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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" 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.' "
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" 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?' "
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You
Doing
" The garden is something I always try to get into, but it always beats me. "
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Me
" Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned. "
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Stand-Up Comedy
Stand-Up
" 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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Back
I Am
" I don't like false modesty. "
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False
Like
False Modesty
" 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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World
You
Street
" Making people laugh is the only thing I've ever done naturally. "
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Only
People
" As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career. "
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Should
Career
" 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. "
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Financial
Laugh
" I find it pressurising coming to the Voodoo Rooms to do my hour of comedy. "
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Find
Coming
Rooms
" Invest your money safely. Avoid the risky lure of spectacular returns; go for an investment that cannot lose its value. This is why I have put all my spare cash into buying not shares, but thousands of penny chews. "
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Investment
Value
Lose
" Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets. "
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Travel
Private
" 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!' "
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" 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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" 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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Chemotherapy
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" It's not cool to be star-struck. "
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" Seeing a full room of punters queuing for my show is always heartening. "
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Always
Full
" 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
" Even though Bandos is one of the biggest islands in the Maldives, it only takes 20 minutes to walk round. All it has are some chalets and a little harbour centre with three restaurants and a bar. The food is magnificent. "
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Food
Three
Walk