I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.