![]() ![]() ![]() They’ve got bills to pay, they’ve got families and mortgages and rent… You can’t just rely on ‘perhaps, maybe, in a few months’. People can’t hang on thinking, hoping that they might open. “If there’s any uncertainty about it – which there is, and has been for months – clubs can’t survive. “We’re all in a sort of limbo,” he sighs. At the time of writing, bingo-callers are allowed to entertain an indoor audience by telling jokes into a microphone, but comedians aren’t. We’re talking about the “confusing and unclear” new guidance on live entertainment. ![]() For a moment, Britain’s foremost musical comedian sounds very mildly cheesed off. His hobbies are all soothing hobbies: the 55-year-old spends his days birdwatching, sketching butterflies and gently paddleboarding down the Thames, that famous scraggly wisp of hair wafting behind him in the breeze.Īnd yet, phoning me from Hammersmith (where he lives with his wife, son, dogs, snakes, cockatoos, Flemish giant rabbits and African snails), Bailey’s usual Zen is broken. In years of TV panel show appearances, from QI to Never Mind the Buzzcocks, he has always seemed to exist in his own bubble of benign whimsy. ![]()
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