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Frank Skinner

Profession : Comedian

Birth : January 28, 1957

Now, although I did some jobs that I really hated doing, my God, they really make you appreciate it when you get a job that you love doing.

Frank Skinner

I used to do homophobic material that I didn't recognise as homophobic. It's the only stuff I really look back on and think, 'I just wouldn't do that again.'

Frank Skinner

My dad had a dominoes team, and there was a Frank Skinner in it. When I was a kid I used to look at the team card and think it was a brilliant name, so that's what I went for.

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I suppose that every relationship I have been in has had a lot of arguments. I find it very hard to keep things at the bickering level.

Frank Skinner

Not being a naturally-good-looking-ladies-man type of bloke, I hadn't had a tremendous amount of success with women. So when celebrity opened the door, I went a bit barmy.

Frank Skinner

I did a tour of Sweden with Eddie Izzard in our early days, and he said, 'I'm thinking of talking about being a transvestite on stage. You should talk about being a Catholic.' I said, 'I think audiences will be more accepting of you being a transvestite than me being a Catholic.'

Frank Skinner

Neuromancer' by William Gibson is a cyberpunk classic.

Frank Skinner

I was pleased Melissa Leo won Best Supporting Actress for 'The Fighter' at the Oscars. I hope that her outfits are maintained in some cinema museum.

Frank Skinner

I'm enjoying Channel Four's '10 O'Clock Live.' I like the idea of putting together a dream team and seeing what happens. I also like 'Not Going Out,' the sitcom starring Lee Mack. It's a sitcom packed with jokes. Not many of them as frowned upon as lacking kudos.

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Alcoholic is a big word, but I'd have a hard time defending myself against it in court.

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I'd rather be looked down on than beaten up.

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For me personally, being a comedian is having funny ideas and saying them: it's not just saying them. I need the complete process.

Frank Skinner

One of the nice things about becoming a stand-up, one of the great things about becoming a stand-up, is you realise you haven't been wasting all those years you thought you'd been wasting.

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I don't know anything about politics, so I don't do political material.

Frank Skinner

Well, I think that the most exciting stage of any tour is getting the tour together. Because when new material works, there is no other feeling like that. It's just brilliant. And for the first half of the tour, you're still often finding the extra stuff in that material. You're exploring it every night.

Frank Skinner

I suppose when I started out I didn't know the kind of comic I wanted to be at all. So in a way, the audience wrote my act. I went in and did stuff that I would have done in the pub, and some of it they liked, and some of it they didn't. And I kept what they laughed at.

Frank Skinner

I think, as I've gone on, I've got a sense that there are some laughs I want, and some laughs I don't want.

Frank Skinner

I don't think I'm in love with television. I think I'm in love with stand-up, and I'm in love with radio. And then, television is my employer.

Frank Skinner

It is so rubbish when comics belittle their children in the misguided belief that it makes them look cool.

Frank Skinner

You can be funny about your kids without being unkind.

Frank Skinner