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.

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

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

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

I am the world's worst diabetic.