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.

If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

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

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 you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.