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Most of the people that saw me do comedy between the years 2007 and 2012.
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Bill Bailey
Comedian and musician
My parents, for not pursuing an academic career.
Ronnie Wood
English rock musician
I don’t really owe anybody any apologies.
My kids. I think if you don’t want to say sorry to your kids you’ve been an appalling parent.
To kids I bullied in school. I have apologised and I will continue to. To repay those things karmically, I will watch my kids’ hearts like a hawk for signs of hardening or any distortions of empathy that they might develop.
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In the last couple of years, Britain.
Anything from the concept of human mortality to a faux pas I made at a party in 2005.
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
Worryingly close to absolute panic.
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