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William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.
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Impressionist
America
Modern
World
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To get to do a West End play is once in a lifetime chance.
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Lifetime
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My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
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Teacher
Firsts
Impression
French
Swift
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Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.
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Coffee
Starbucks
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If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.
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Oil
Reduced
Runs
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Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.
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Scotland
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Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
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Computer
Radio
Reading
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Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.
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Columns
Demand
Nervous
Column
Instantly
Weekly
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I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
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Childhood
Class
Edinburgh
Public School
School
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People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
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Clever
May
People
Swift
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I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
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Fascinated
Figures
Frightening
Reassurance
Scary
Menacing
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I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.
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Ideas
Impression
No Idea
People
Recognise
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It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.
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Frustrate
Mind Me Words
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A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.
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Nonsense
I Can Try Things
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I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.
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Fulfilling
Tv Shows
Tvs
Writing
Perform
Demanding
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Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.
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Independence
Union
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I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.
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Issue
Understandable
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British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
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Impressionist
British
British Politics
Labour
Moving
Target
The Problem With
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I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.
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Caricature
Cook
Dawson
Les
Robin
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I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.
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Spinning
Plate
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It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.
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Cards
Identity
Opposed
No Wonder
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Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.
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Blair
Judgment
Said
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Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.
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Believer
Countrymen
Scottish
Fellow
Followed
Great Believer
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It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'
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Dog
Giving
Names
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Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.
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Hotel
Location
Scotland
Camp
District
Lake
Rather
Sit
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I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.
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Skin
Burn
Easily
Fair
Mediterranean
Olive
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Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
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Independence
Debate
Reaching
Scotland
Temperature
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In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
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Age
Comedian
Satirist
Intellectually
Just Be
Rigorous
Talked
Topical
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I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time.
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Edinburgh
Importance
Pun
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I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
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Cities
Nelson
Tables
Voice
Cape
Great City
Mandela
Rarely
Restaurant
Worked
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I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family, to spend more time up here.
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Relaxed
Scotland
Family Time Age
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My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
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Medical
Mum
Suffering
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I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.
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Afterlife
Humour
Miserable
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When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
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Accepted
Bird
Comedians
Contest
Journalists
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In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.
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Cancer
Barely
Contracted
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I love anywhere new and different. That's the fun of travel. I've always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy - sometimes in an Alfa Spider.
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Travel
Driving
France
Spain
Love Always Fun
Anywhere
Loved
Italy
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Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.
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Doe
Waiting
Years
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For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.
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Amazing
Britain
Cities
Coastline
Countryside
Lakes
Packs
Rolling
Small Country
Villages
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I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.
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Staff
Tick
Bar
Entirely
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When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.
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End Of The Day Day End
Channels
End Of The Day
Explosion
Meal
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It's a new world that's very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President.
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New World
Hope Man World
Openly
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When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.
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Eras
House
White
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Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest.
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Boxes
Corporate
Opera
Turns
Connection
Promote
Suggest
Tournament
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I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.
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Impersonate
Life Is Short
Sitting
Life Night My Life
Short
Nick
Poorer
Tapes
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I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.
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Able
Comedy
Democracy
Idiosyncrasies
Important
Satire
Very
Part
Follies
Important Part
Laugh
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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
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Computer
Criticize
Dare
Expensive
Garbage
None
Passed
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I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, 'Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?' until I realized that's exactly what he was thinking.
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Blair
Remember When
Exactly What
Tony
Tony Blair
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When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
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Blair
Human Rights
Liberty
Revolutionary
Rights
Would Be
Human Human Rights Rights
Sell
Terribly
Jack
Straw
Tony
Tony Blair
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I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don't like the fact that opera is seen as elitist and all black ties and that stuff.
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Elitist
Enjoyable
Opera
Ties
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I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.
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Programmes
Vehicle
Screen
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