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Ricky Gervais Takes On Hitler, Churchill, Gandhi and Anne Frank | Universal Comedy
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i love books of quotations i saw i read
them um
for pleasure i've got a few of these
compilations and uh one of my heroes is
winston churchill
and when i read give us the tools and we
will finish the job
i thought how inspiring and when i read
never in the field of human conflict was
so much owed by so many to so few
i thought how patriotic and when i read
it is a good thing for an uneducated man
to read books of quotations
i thought you cheeky fat git
people say that oscar wilde is the
greatest genius that's ever lived
let's test that except it is one of his
all women become like their mothers
that is their tragedy no man does that
is his
that sounds a bit gay to me
just i don't know give another go isn't
it one
i couldn't help it i can resist
everything except temptation
that sounds guy as well i want to start
that with an o i want to go
oh i couldn't outfit you know i
and i want to end it with i can resist
everything except temptation chance to
be a fine thing do you know i mean
and when he went through customs all
those years ago in new york and the
customs officer just doing his job
said have you anything to declare oscar
wilde famously said
nothing but my genius
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it's not witty he planned that i bet the
first time i went through customs in a
foreign country it was all
yes sir no sir anything declare no on
you go thank oh i just thought somewhat
brilliant to say
excuse me can i go but no no oh god he
had to wait weeks in those days back on
a boat to england planning it
anything to declare nothing with my
genius i'll be in a book of quotations
why not so he gets there again
finds the same bloke goes down look goes
on you go i didn't even ask me
that time
excuse me they didn't ask me if
anything's clear random
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