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?'

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.