The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.

There's things that I couldn't joke about but other people could.

I've got a friend whose nickname is "Shagger". You might think that's pretty cool. She doesn't like it.

I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

I was out with a friend and he came over with a pair of girls. I said to him "They're like buses." He said "What? Because you wait for ages and then two come along at once." I said "No, they are like buses!"

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.