Jon Richardson
People associate me with being pernickety and down. In the past, I was guilty of keeping myself like that just to maintain my comic persona.
I shouldn't still be working out how to be misanthropic singleton comic when I'm 60. I should have moved on by then.
I like small parties with people I know. I like eating pizza at home with my girlfriend.
I get quite frustrated about a lot of things on a day-to-day basis. I can't help it; it is an impulse with me.
Somewhat naively, I entered the BBC's 'New Talent Competition,' believing it was for people who had never tried comedy before. I remember sitting in the dressing room before the show and hearing the other acts - who all knew one another - talking to Rhod Gilbert about how he must be about ready to go 'full-time' as a comic.
I do enjoy doing the TV work, but I try to be careful not to do too much. Otherwise, you end up being recognised just for being on television rather than for your own stuff.
I need to recognise that everyone is an individual and that the key to a good relationship is to recognise that. This does theme to be a theme in my stand-up as well as my writing!
I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.Collection: Needs
I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.Collection: Hate
My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically.Collection: Sight
I have a lot of internalised tantrums. I secretly hope the worst and then I start planning my little speech for the beginning of it. Showers are the worst - all the time in the shower I'm planning the next time I'm going to lose it at someone, and then I never actually do. You're almost let down when people are nice.Collection: Nice
Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.Collection: Falling In Love
I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to get pickpocketed. And a coat goes over your pockets so it's harder for someone to get their hand in and steal your phone or wallet out of your pocket. It's an unnecessary level of thinking that may lessen the enjoyment you have out of life.Collection: Thinking
There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.Collection: Mean
I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable of truly understanding the emotion. Artists have not pored over heartache and unrequited sentimentality for years so that our generation could decide that four letters is simply one too many to express how we feel.Collection: Artist
It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.Collection: Grieving
The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting down coasters and alphabetising DVDs while all around me people got off with whoever was closest and gradually headed off to various rooms to make more mess, no doubt.Collection: Girl
I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.Collection: Hate
I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection.Collection: Sight
I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.Collection: Thinking
Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both.Collection: Done
My weirdness aside, if I am to find any friends, particularly a girlfriend, she will almost certainly have to be a human. My previous track record tends to suggest that of all species that exist on the planet, it has so far been exclusively humans to whom I find myself sexually attracted. This is a good thing legally if nothing else.Collection: Girlfriend
I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.Collection: Believe
If you love something, Let it go, If it comes back it's yours, That's how you know kno-o-ow Nonsense, Christina Aguilera! I say, 'If you love it, file it away under "Things I love". If it's required at a later date, you'll know exactly where it i-i-i-is.Collection: Let It Go
I don't really talk to people.Collection: People