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People feel much more comfortable with the 50 Shades of Grey version of women’s liberation: possibly feeling life would be much simpler if the suffragettes hadn’t wanted the vote and just really enjoyed chaining themselves to railings.

— Frankie Boyle

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There is a vegetarian option: you can fuck off.

The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon.

You've got a blank face there pal, if you hold that expression for long enough in a hospital you'd get fucking switched off.

The Last Days of Sodom (2012)

There's two empty seats right middle - this is supposed to be sold out, where are they? I hope they're dead in a fucking car crash!

The Last Days of Sodom (2012)

Can I just say, my routine about raping and f*****g Holly Willoughby was part of a very long routine about whether or not it's OK to do a joke about that, and I look at it from both sides, there are pluses and minuses.

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