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.

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

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

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

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

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.