Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.

Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.

Times are hard and friends are few

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

You cannot mistake thisYou cannot reinvent this moment You cannot call this loveIt is so much more

If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.

I have a lot of beautiful friends.

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel.