I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.

I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.