A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

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.