I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.

I am the world's worst diabetic.

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.