Bill Bailey

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Does anybody else like Bill Bailey. To clarify for those who don't know who he is and might have seen any of the following programs he is in:
Spaced: The owner of Fantasy Bazaar
Black Books: Manny
Never Mind The Buzzcocks: One of the team captains I think.

I just bought a Bill Bailey DVD over the weekend and it was great.
QUOTE: Bill Bailey would like the eggs of numbing inevitability.

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yeah i know bill baily hilarious guy when he was  in black books in the first season and he had to do the good cop bad cop  routine i was rolling on the floor lauphing and spaced was a brilliant series i never saw him in it thought, never heard of the last one. The first time i saw bill was on one of those comedy specials and he came out and did a bit with a guitar where told a 1970s cop show story doing the sound effects with the bass it is still one of the funniest routines i have heard

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He's a Klingon nonce.

But a great Klingon nonce.

And I AM Manny.

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Really? You don't look much like him.

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I work at a second-hand bookshop, and my boss and I frequently run through Black Books routines.

One of the best shows ever, as it's all true.

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He's a mad genius.
Wonder who would win in a fight, him or Billy Connolly...

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mmmmmm....yeah i love bill bailey....ive got bewilderness too....soooooo funny....

i am death
a wing-ed beast
i was born on the velvet wings of night
and im hungry for a feast
i am the nemesis of the vowl
my heart is black as coal
you can kill me with a trowel
i am an OWL

did anyone see his TV show??? it was late night on bbc 2 a couple of years ago...well about 5 years ago i think. Brilliant it was.....have a banana

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I've been saying:
'Bill Bailey would like the eggs of numbing inevitability'
to anyone who'll listen ever since I got it. Love that song. What show do you mean? Do you have a title for it?
EDIT: and I think its spelt Vole.

EDIT of an EDIT: was it called: 'Is it Bill Bailey'? and how come nobody noticed him in Spaced? He was the guy who owned the comic book store that Tim worked in. Ring any bells yet?

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I didnt knoew he was in spaced, He was brilliant in Black books.

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He's great on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and I've never seen Black Books but I'd like to catch an episode sometime.

I heard one his songs playing in a shop recently and I couldn't stop laughing. It was something about insects taking over the world, a good rip at prog rock. Great stuff!

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One of his jokes which rang true for me and I still remember is "The theme to Mastermind - is it just me or was that designed purely to put the fear of God into you?"

Genius. And yes I noticed him in Spaced.

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when did he release a cd recently casue ive never seen it on sale here id love to get it. still drawing a blank on spaced though but that in itself was a great series

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Youd be lucky to catch an ep of blackbooks. Like all great british comedy's, there were only a few episodes. Around four or six.

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no there were six in the first series but the second series hasnt been shown here yet i think it is on sale in the abc shop though ag

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mmmmmm i havent seen black books but did notice him in spaced.....sorry cube but i cant spell....oh and that insect song is from 'insect nation', i havent seen it as it aint on dvd....but i want to.

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You get a clip of it in his interview. I want to see the whole thing as well though.

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Bill Bailey is excellent.. his show on BBC2 was called Is It Bill Bailey? and was directed by Edgar Wright, who later went on to direct Spaced.

He had a skit in his show about a blues keyboardist trying to play Toccata and Fuge in his solo to look sophisticated, but ended up morphing into the theme from Ski Sunday.

They should really release it on DVD. Theres a website at  http://www.billbailey.co.uk , but theres nothing much more than a set of tour dates there at the minute.

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Here: http://muse.cream.org/bill/isit.html
you can get clips of Is It Bill Bailey. My favourite is The Leg Of Time. And yes, this should be released on DVD but they never will

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nice one.....but they havent got the belgium jazz doctor who.

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did you know that Bill Bailey released a lot of his songs on a CD. I found out last night and I've already ordered it from HMV (if they don't have that in america, it's a music store).