Bill Bailey

Person · Open Library

Works

48

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Film & TV

Acting · Bath, Somerset, England

Bill Bailey (born Mark Bailey; January 13, 1964) is an English stand-up comedian, musician and actor. As well as his extensive stand-up work, Bailey is well known for his appearances on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI and Black Books. Bailey was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in 2003. In 2007 and again in 2010, he was voted the 7th…

Known for

• Bill Bailey: Thoughtifier — Self2026
• Bill Bailey’s Vietnam — Self - Host2025
• Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps — The Donkey (voice)2024
• How To Make It In Comedy2024
• Perfect Pub Walks — Himself2024
• Bring the Drama — Self - Presenter2024
• The Smeds and the Smoos — Grandfather Smed (voice)2023
• Bill Bailey's Australian Adventure — Self - Presenter2023
• The Fringe, Fame and Me — Self2022
• Bill Bailey's Master Crafters — Self - Presenter2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1965

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

22,510

Total plays

430,077

Bill Bailey is a comedian / musician / actor from the Bath, UK. He first started touring in 1984 with other comedians such as Mark Lamarr and Toby Longworth. His live shows are a mixture of stand-up and original comic songs. He has four albums (two studio, two live) and four live DVDs. He plays Manny Bianco in the sitcom "Black Books" and was a permanent fixture of "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" on the BBC for 11 series' until October 2008. He had a <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bill+Bailey">R

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,639x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,517x

3. Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

   · 2020 · cited 13,860x

4. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,244x

5. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,054x

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Quotes

• “What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.”
• “I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.”
• “But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"”
• “And just as he said that a feminist jumped out of a manhole - just jumped up and oh, and she didn't like that. That she didn't like that.”
• “Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!Episode 1, 1:36”
• “I am a confectionary-based existentialist.”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

billbailey.co.uk

Image

Bill Bailey rocking out in 2008.jpg

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