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That is the ludicrous optimism of the British psyche
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Bill Bailey: Limboland

That is the ludicrous optimismof the British psyche

That is the ludicrous optimism
of the British psyche

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That is the ludicrous optimism of the British psyche.
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4 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:24:09
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.
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,
I came back from the hairdresser's, and I walked in and my mum went, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:20
I came back from the hairdresser's, and I walked in and...
See, one of the jobs as a comic, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:06
See, one of the jobs as a comic,
I overheard two blokes talking, and one said to the other one, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:15
I overheard two blokes talking, and one said to the other on...
That's ten minutes of my life I'm never getting back, you know. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:05
That's ten minutes of my life I'm never getting ba...
I was outside my own house here in Hammersmith where I live, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:08
I was outside my own house here in Hammersmith where I live,
And, uh, I was walking up and down my street, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:10
And, uh, I was walking up and down my street,
That's evil. The evil of Costa. So that's another show. And, uh... - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:05
That's evil. The evil of Costa. So that's another ...
So I'm walking up and down my street, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:09
So I'm walking up and down my street,
I catch the end of the conversation, and one says to the other, - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:06
I catch the end of the conversation, and one says to the oth...
You see, the thing is I think that's just transference. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:04
You see, the thing is I think that's just transference.
I think people wanna talk to each other in Britain, but we can't. - Bill Bailey: Limboland 00:05
I think people wanna talk to each other in Britain, but we c...