It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

I like to shock people.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.