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I used to clean the ovens in a bakery. Brillo pad and poison.
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Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
Bar and buffet at Top Ten Bingo in Greenford. A lot of the old people were quite bigoted.
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Just remembered will do.
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