Tim Vine

“Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of twiglets.”

“You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.”

“I phoned the local ramblers club today and this bloke just went on and on.”

“The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it.”

“So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.'”

“I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one.”

“I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?"”

“My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.”

“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.”

“Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.”

“Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.”

“If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.”

“I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."”

“So I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said 'I want to buy an ice-cream'. He said Hundreds & thousands?' I said 'We'll start with one.' He said 'Knickerbocker glory?' I said 'I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes.'”

“So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'”

“I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.”

“I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.”

“So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me, 'Can you give me a lift?' I said, 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it!'”

“Velcro: what a rip-off.”

“Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.”

“I bought some Armageddon cheese today, and it said on the packet 'Best Before End...'”

“I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.”

“With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke”

“One-armed butlers, they can take it but they can't dish it out”

“People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.”

“Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.”

“Believe it or not, there are twice as many eyebrows in the world as there are people.”

“Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.”

“Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”

“I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.”

“My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.”

“I'll tell you what makes my blood boil?... Crematoriums.”

“People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.”

“So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".”

“One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.”

“So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.”

“If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.”

“I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.”

“For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.”

“My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?" I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me."”

“I met this gangster who pulls up people's pants. Name's Wedgie Kray.”

“My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.”

“I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.”

“I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.”

“I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver.”

“I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.”

“So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'”

“So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'”

“So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."”

“As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.”