I never really wanted to be on telly.

I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.

I found out recently that my 'Good News' show has a big following in North Korea and the Vatican City! Who knew Kim Jong-un and the Pope liked fast-paced satire?

I did a stand-up performance on Conan O'Brian, which was great, but it's not for me. I prefer England.

But I did break my mum's heart, because I turned down 'Strictly' twice. I just couldn't do it. It's not for me.

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

I don't really have a political agenda, I just like things to be fair - I get angered by pomposity and privilege.

I always found it strange, when I went round to other people's houses for tea and that, how strict their parents were.

My mum is unwittingly funny.

I like New York, I think you've got some of the best comics in the world here.

'Monty Python' was never on TV in the U.K. when I was a kid.

Chappelle is incredible. He is comfy on stage and he talks about big things and small things. He's a version of himself. That's what I've always wanted to be and hopefully I still am.

Seinfeld' was never a show in the U.K.

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.

I've never been on Facebook. My page is run for me. It is the same with Twitter.

My life is quite normal and for me it helps with my comedy. If you jump headlong into celebrity life it affects who you are and what you talk about.

Your country becomes funnier the further you are from it. I remember seeing Boris Johnson on the news when I was in Hong Kong, and he looked so much more ridiculous.

The number of old ladies who've beaten me up on TV is absolutely ridiculous.

Mum's side of the family are daft, beautiful and brilliant.

The hit rap duo Kris Kross wore their trousers backwards, in the Nineties, and I wore my trousers backwards to a school disco. It led to some bullying.

I have 40 cousins.

Everything I experience in life, I put through the sausage-maker that is comedy, and then try to make it funny for others. Whether that is healthy or not remains to be seen.

I've reached the age of 32 with little wisdom, I'm afraid. It's tragic. I still have to turn to my mum and dad for every decision I make in life.

I don't want to do a rabidly left-wing show. I think it's much more interesting to turn the knife on yourself.

I bought my mum a car, and I bought my brother one of those hoverboards for Christmas, and I bought my family a holiday to Australia.

I buy a lot of Liverpool trinkets. I've got Philippe Coutinho's boot - I spent three grand on that. Which, you know, is insane. But it's Philippe Coutinho's boot, what you gonna do?

I have a friend called James who is in his 40s and he's still not allowed to swear in front of his mum. I find it strange that you can't be yourself and be open with the one person who brought you into this world.

I broke my wrist on TV trying to do a one-armed push-up. A lot of people delight in pointing this out to me.

I don't really do any corporate gigs or I don't really cash in which is a bit silly and much to the annoyance of my family. I'd rather just do gigs that I like and TV shows that I like rather than personal appearances at a nightclub.

It's a bit of a cliche but throughout London, even in places like Notting Hill, you'll see utter luxury alongside council flats - it shows the tapestry of life and I adore that.

These are strange times. I'm 37 and this is the weirdest the world's ever felt. There's a right-wing, nationalistic anger sweeping through Europe and America.

I'm one of the people who actually laughs at everyone else's jokes!

Most comics' first gig is either brilliant or horrific.

I think you just have to be comfortable in your own skin, and when I do stand-up or the show I'm in a really good mood.

I do cryotherapy, which is where you're in minus 70 and you have three minutes of deep freeze and your body thinks it's dying so it produces loads of blood cells and then you're fine - apparently.

I've been doing stand-up for 15 years and I've never even been invited to the Comedy Awards! How mental is that?

I'm not the kind of comic who would try stuff on Twitter, because I have to work up ideas and I can only do that in front of people.

At a gig in Liverpool I had this lady give me 21 cup cakes she had made herself. It's not really rock'n'roll is it? Tom Jones gets pants thrown at him and I get given fairy cakes.

Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comic who I believe is one of the finest in the world.

I'm a very early riser on holiday. I am invariably down at the pool on a sun lounger even before anyone can put a towel on one.

Genuinely, the first gig I did when I was 18, it felt like the world shifted. I realised that I had stumbled upon a mechanism through which you could view life.

The strange thing about people considering me upbeat is that I'm really not.

If the front-page news is a comedian doing a joke that people think is naughty, that proves there's no real news that day, does it not?

When you see the American chat shows, they've got so many ideas about what they could with the guests. I did stand-up on 'Jimmy Fallon' and they had loads of sketches and ideas, we don't tend to do that here.

I'm really not into technology at all. My brother has to plug the Xbox in for me.

I just assume a lot of people hate me. You just have to suck it up.

I'm not a particularly ambitious person.

I'd like to have kids.

I think all our leaders are utterly beneath us. You just watch 'Prime Minister's Questions' and go: 'How is this the best that we've got?'