Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.

I want my work to be judged, not me.