A biography for Tim Vinehasn’t been written yet.
“With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.”
“People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.”
“I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.”
“If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.”
“So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.”
“I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.”
“So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'”
“You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.”
“I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.”
“My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.”