My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

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've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

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.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!