Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.