The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull. — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
Jews, I know you're God's chosen people and the rest of us are just 'whatever', but when Israel behaves like a violent, psychopathic bully… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.” — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
“We humans who art on Earth Humanity is special Our kingdom has come Do what we innately know to be right On earth, because… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood,… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
“I'd like to start this week with a request, and this one goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: the Muslims,… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god. — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
