I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

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.

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.

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.