Words matter. These are the best Marcus Brigstocke Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are – all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.
I’d rather be happy than right.
I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It’s an amazing feeling.
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.
I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I’m a pretty good guy.
If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone’s going to agree with it.
I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.
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.
Never Google yourself. Seriously, don’t!
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy – even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.
No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.
I don’t mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.
The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.
Eventually, somewhere – be it on the Internet or somewhere else – I will host some version of ‘The Daily Show.’
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.
I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.
I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn’t have a clue.
Offence is important; that’s how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you’re not offended. So dull.
Jim Henson was an absolute genius.
If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.
My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.
I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.
And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don’t enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.
Britain is obsessed with political correctness.
All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.
I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I’m supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.
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.
I realised that to compare your insides with other people’s outsides leads to unhappiness.
