You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

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

If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.