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

Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. 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. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.