I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

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

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.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

I thought I was funny as a kid.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.