Dave Gorman
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"David James "Dave" Gorman" is an English author, comedian, and television presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of his extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true. He was a stand-up comedian before he became famous for Are You Dave Gorman?.

Gorman took a break from stand-up to undertake a sponsored hitchhike around the pacific rim countries. He began and ended this journey in Ucluelet, Canada. He returned to stand-up in 2009 with a show called Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop and Stand Up whose unique feature was that he bicycled 1,563 miles from the southernmost point of Britain to the easternmost to the westernmost and then to the northernmost, with a gig following each night.

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If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' ... If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.

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I'm not usually called anything so kind.

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Every time I told them a true bit, it got a bigger reaction than any of the jokes I had written.

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My first thought was, 'I think I'm being insulted,'.

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Later on, after I'd met this gentleman with the interesting site, ... he found a Googlewhack of his own. I ended up going to meet that person, and that person found a Googlewhack, so I went and met that person and that person found a Googlewhack, so I kept going and going.

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Why are they doing this review if not to cut benefits? ... Remember these were claims that were allowed at the time. They are also not going back to review claims that they denied and should not have been. . . . I think this is going to make VA decision-makers tighter with their grants for disability payments.

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What this Australian guy meant when he said I was a Googlewhack.

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Whatever they call me, I know I'm a very fortunate man.

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