I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

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 prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.