I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character.

I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.