Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

Nothing worse than when a 6 acts like a 10.

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.

The whole city [Manchester] just a real rock music vibe. It reminded me a lot of where I'm from.

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?