I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.

But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.

It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.

Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you're just doing the odd appearance, you don't know if it will carry on.