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Rory Bremner

Rory Bremner

British Comedian

Born: Apr 6, 1961

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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. Rory Bremner

You Nothing Garbage Machine Dare Out Criticize Somehow Having Through Computer Put None Passed Very Expensive

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. Rory Bremner

Menacing Rather Am Frightening Just Figure Fascinated Reassurance

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K. Rory Bremner

Will Resources Bitter Division Prospective Greatest Welsh Irish Debts Northern Against English Union Whole Set

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift. Rory Bremner

Teacher First French Impression Public Swift

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column. Rory Bremner

Nervous About Weekly Column Instantly Demands Doing Now

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. Rory Bremner

People Clever Say Very May Really Swift

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. Rory Bremner

Day End Of The Day Three Nation Meal Down Channels Were Been End Up Same Just Explosion Sat Growing Growing Up Now

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair. Rory Bremner

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. Rory Bremner

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. Rory Bremner

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them. Rory Bremner

Try Before Sense Make Nonsense Lot Them Things

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself. Rory Bremner

Thinking Caricature John Dawson Look Himself Robin Without Cook Les

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both. All these links, politically, economically, culturally, are part of my Union. Would Glasgow's brilliant Commonwealth Games or the Edinburgh Festival be any better for our being independent? I doubt it. Rory Bremner

Time Better Brilliant Doubt Our Independent Would Charles Some Case Both Part Glasgow Economically Edinburgh Greatest Links Scotland Festival Scottish Any Politically Being Commonwealth Whisky Games England Union Exports Included Kennedy

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power. Rory Bremner

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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. Rory Bremner

Skin Mediterranean Easily Tell Could Nobody Fair Quite Burn Olive

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. 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. Rory Bremner

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again. Rory Bremner

Me Words Mind Reading End Up Same Frustrate Again

Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt. Rory Bremner

Sit Everything Location District Rather Hotel Camp Scotland Than Lake

To get to do a West End play is once in a lifetime chance. Rory Bremner

Once Lifetime West End Get Play Chance

What's fascinating about doing comedy about the referendum is, because it is the first time, it is the most extraordinary atmosphere. You find that if you are making jokes about politicians, it becomes intensely political. Rory Bremner

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap. Rory Bremner

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Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously. Rory Bremner

Politics Seriously Important Too Taken Scotland Far

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