You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

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

I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.

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.

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.