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British happiness is different from happiness around the world
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Bill Bailey: Limboland

British happiness is differentfrom happiness around the world because we process...

British happiness is different
from happiness around the world because we process happiness
in a different way in Britain

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British happiness is different from happiness around the world
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because we process happiness in a different way in Britain.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
51
Timestamp in Movie
00:22:37
Uploaded
Jun 19, 2025
Genres
comedy
Production
Universal Pictures UK

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Movie Summary

Limboland is a place where we find the gaps in life...from a fantastically downbeat version of Happy Birthday—via a hilarious tale of a disastrous family trip to see the Northern Lights—to a heart-rending country and western ballad on the nature of love, Bill explores our expectations of happiness with his trademark wit and musicality.
American friends I've met, Australians, they're much more in the moment. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:05
American friends I've met, Australians, they're mu...
They're much more, much more upbeat, much more positive. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:04
They're much more, much more upbeat, much more positive...
I say to my Australian friends, "How are you?" - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:06
I say to my Australian friends, "How are you?"
"How are you? How was yesterday?" - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:09
"How are you? How was yesterday?"
Because our happiness is based on this premise: - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:06
Because our happiness is based on this premise:
That's why the standard greeting in Britain... "How are you?" - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:11
That's why the standard greeting in Britain... "Ho...
"Not too bad." - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:09
"Not too bad."
We've dialed down our expectation - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:06
We've dialed down our expectation
We're eking out our expectation in diminishing increments of reduced joy. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:07
We're eking out our expectation in diminishing incremen...
We're not in the abyss, we're in the car park and snack area - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:06
We're not in the abyss, we're in the car park and ...
That is the ludicrous optimism of the British psyche. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:04
That is the ludicrous optimism of the British psyche.
In Britain we have the highest per-capita ownership - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:06
In Britain we have the highest per-capita ownership
That is preposterous optimism, right there. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:05
That is preposterous optimism, right there.
When you see a couple with the top down in July, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:10
When you see a couple with the top down in July,
"It's clearing up, it's clearing up." - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:10
"It's clearing up, it's clearing up."
It was The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:05
It was The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht.
Yeah, we had quite an ambitious English teacher and... - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:05
Yeah, we had quite an ambitious English teacher and...
It's about the rise of gangsterism in Prohibition era Chicago. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:05
It's about the rise of gangsterism in Prohibition era C...
But it's a thinly veiled satirical allegory about the rise of Nazism, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:09
But it's a thinly veiled satirical allegory about the r...
I was the Ui character, the putative Hitler character, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:09
I was the Ui character, the putative Hitler character,