I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: "Here comes the bride, all fat and wide." Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

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.

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.