One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.

I look like Julian Clary on steroids.

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

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.