Bob Mortimer Quotes

Bob Mortimer

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 23, 1959

I am increasingly of the mind that all fat is good.

Bob Mortimer

I love 'Big Brother.' I adore it. What can I say. It just suits me fine.

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I like having something I can watch every single night. It suits my habits.

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I am allowed one matchbox-sized piece of cheese a week.

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There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second.

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I never craved having people leave a show saying, 'He's really intelligent, isn't he?' I didn't watch Tommy Cooper and think, 'Oh, he's so bright.' He just made me laugh.

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I thought I had a chest infection and went to the doctor - five days later I was under the knife. It came completely out of the blue. My arteries were 95% blocked.

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I saw Alan Davies on a show from the London Palladium and he did a nice routine about having kids or whatever. I couldn't do that.

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I'd always wanted to do something about football, so I did the podcast.

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We miss 'House of Fools' a lot. It felt a bit like a different and fresh show for British TV.

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I was just a toddler when my dad died in a car crash. With my mum, Eunice, being a young widow with a large family, she really struggled money-wise.

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Darts is bad.

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I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

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I've started to get iritis, which affects the eyes. But I'm not going to give in.

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We live very ordinary lives.

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Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

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It's like cooks don't watch cooking programmes - I suppose maybe comedians don't watch comedy shows.

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There is a theory in showbiz circles that mentally you remain the same age as when you first tasted fame, and I think there is a grain of truth in this.

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I think 'the Mighty Boosh' are quite good.

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In broadcasting, there's a lot of longevity offered to people like Griff Rhys Jones and Stephen Fry, who are polymaths more than comics. We're comics first and foremost.

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