I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

I've got my finger in a lot of pies.

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've always been looking for other people's approval.