The Brag

Interviewing Bill Bailey comes with a small caveat: he reads everything. So be nice, or you might end up in his show. One hapless journalist who referred to Bailey’s “egg-shaped head” and hair that “flows like a shower curtain down his back”, ended up having their description mocked on stage every night, in his show Part Troll. “People get very creative in their descriptions of my physical demeanour,” Bailey admits. “I don’t have a team of image consultants, much as you may find that surprising. It’s down to my own laziness, I suppose, it’s something that’s not really bothered me. I’m aware of it, because they say ‘Ooh, you look like this, you look like that’, and every single review – ‘Oh, the wurzel-head, the bearded thing’, and I think, ‘Cor, blimey, I hadn’t really paid it much attention.’”

Posted: July 11th, 2012 under Arts, Arts - Interview, Arts Feature, Brag 470, New.
Tags: Bill Bailey, Caitlin Welsh, Qualmpeddler, State Theatre

Comedy Bill Bailey Reviewed July 27 @ State Theatre I love stand-up comedy when it appears to be completely random, a series of ideas that come to the comedian perfectly organically – but a clever and tricky revelation at the end is a knowing wink to the audience; “I am actually wayyyyyy smarter than you [...]

Posted: August 9th, 2010 under Arts, Brag 373 (August 2), Live Comedy Reviews.
Tags: Bill Bailey, Kirsty Brown, The Brag

Bill Bailey No swearing, please. By Jack Franklin Bill Bailey doesn’t just look odd, he talks odd. Or to put it another way, he talks like he does on the telly – in a meandering, loopy, labyrinthine manner. “It’s, what time it is now? Ahh about half one in the morning or something,” says the [...]

Posted: July 5th, 2010 under Arts, Arts - Interview, Arts Feature.
Tags: Bill Bailey