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.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

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 don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.