Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about a dozen times before I even met him. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, which isn't in this film... but whenever I see him, I always tell him that Passengers is my favourite song because it's one of his least auspicious ones.

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.