Rose65
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It seems rather a high percentage. I'm reading a book by Dr Ed Patrick, an anaesthetist and also comedian. Harry Hill comes to mind as several others. I wonder what the connection or reason is.
Why do so many doctors become comedians?
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George1959
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An anesthetist and comedian? Maybe he sniffed too much laughing gas?
PeppermintPatty
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Iāve never heard of any doctors becoming a comedian.
Rose65
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Harry Hill is well known to be one. Paul Sinha another.
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..yep and Jo Brand ( psychiatric nurse)... and Graham Garden just to name 2 more...
Maybe it's because their salaries were so laughable that they thought they were in a comedy...lol
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I don't think it's any higher than any other profession...
Rose65
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Oh I never knew those two were in medicine.
It must be because they are just so clever. Comedians I have seen in stage are breathtaking in intelligence.
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I agree... look at Dara Ć Briain... Stephen Fry... David Mitchell... Lee Mack, just as a small example..... none of them doctors but all highly intelligent comedians
George1959
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In Germany I only know one doctor comedian: Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen. And I don't like him at all!
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We have a German Comedian Here , Henning Wehn... he's one of the more intellectual comedians .
To be funny in another language has to be very hard....
To be funny in another language has to be very hard....
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Doctors are real cut-ups