I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

I look like Julian Clary on steroids.

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

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wanky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

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