You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

I loved Lucille Ball growing up.