I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.