I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.