Quotes: Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey
He calls himself "part troll" but he's also dubbed himself "a kind of klingon". However you see him, Bill Bailey is as funny as his hair is unfortunate. Which is to say he's a very funny man indeed, as this tasty collection of Bailey-isms proves...
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On GM crops: I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of velcro, to catch whatever it is that's forming those crop circles. But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding velcro so it's a bit of a long shot.
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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show: vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can, in some extreme cases, lead to genocide.
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People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'
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I'm English and, as such, I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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On the Taliban: That ethos was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs. The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer Rouge, the religious persecution of the Nazis, the enforced beard-wearing from the world of folk music, and the subjugation and humiliation of women from the world of golf.
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!!
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A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?
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The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.
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Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying 'Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.'
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I'm a postmodern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.
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