Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.