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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.