I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.

I'm gonna hump ya. Like Deputy Dog... Would hump ya.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.

I wasn't a naturally confident, extravert, outgoing person.