Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.