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… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
The edge of inappropriate is the spiritual home of the best stand-up comedy. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
For me personally, being a comedian is having funny ideas and saying them: it's not just saying them. I need the complete… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
My comedy is my life turned into jokes. I think a lot of people wouldn't like that because you end up talking… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
It's important that comedians talk about difficult and dangerous subjects; you have to be very careful that you don't just hear the… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about becoming a stand-up, one of the great things about becoming a stand-up, is you realise you… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I suppose when I started out I didn't know the kind of comic I wanted to be at all. So in a… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I quite like being a 'comedy elder statesman.' I am a big fan, I go to watch loads of new comics, and… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I did a few mainstream clubs in Birmingham when I started out. Racist comedy was absolutely the norm. Every act was doing… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I grew up on Laurel and Hardy. I'm aware from my own experience that comedy has got quite a fierce sell-by date,… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
“Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I have this JPM thing: jokes per minute. I've worked out that I should get in about 12 punchlines in five minutes.… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I like to turn up my collar when I'm leaving the theatre and feel like I'm some heroic comedian figure. — Frank Skinner Copy Share
I think when anyone says you look like a famous person you fiercely deny it, and then go around hoping other people will say… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
“Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and impressionable, I… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
I suppose that every relationship I have been in has had a lot of arguments. I find it very hard to keep things at… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
Sometimes when you start improvising on stage, which I do a fair bit of, obviously you haven't planned it. But to be honest, it's… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
After I became a professional comedian, I took to listening to Cash's classic hit 'Ring of Fire' before I went on stage. I always… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
If you strip a lot of performers to the core, you find that urge to show off. — Frank Skinner Copy Share
I did a few mainstream clubs in Birmingham when I started out. Racist comedy was absolutely the norm. Every act was doing it and… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
When I started earning, a lot of me didn't need worrying about anymore, so I had scope to worry about someone else. Money, I… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
There is a period in your life when you need your parents and a period in your life where you only think you need… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
My dreams are things like: I'm in the supermarket, I queue, and then I leave the supermarket. It's basically my life but I happen… — Frank Skinner Copy Share
