Because lots of LGBTQ people are really smart, and there's so much really interesting reading that can be done, and so much academic writing that's been done about it, people can end up getting quite academic about it.

I keep getting mobbed in M&S and Debenhams. I feel like Barry Manilow.

There's a beautifully simple sketch in the first episode of 'Smack the Pony:' two women approach each other walking their dogs and as they pass the women bark at each other, the dogs remaining perfectly calm. It kills me every time.

People say I'm charming, but I'm uneasy with that word. Quentin Crisp said: 'Charisma is the ability to influence without logic,' which is terrifying.

The thing about Birmingham is, no one spends their evening looking over your shoulder thinking: 'Is that Nick Grimshaw?' and wondering if there's a better night they could be on. Because there isn't.

World domination was never the plan.

In truth, I have absolutely no idea how to value my work.

I can't have a KitKat without panicking.

I am now reconciled to the fact that I am a millennial through and through.

I've attempted tech-free days when I turn off the phone and stare at the iPad instead.

You should always ask for a refund at the theatre, apart from my shows, of course, where I won't be handing out any refunds.

I have always been an extrovert. When I was younger, I would go outside and sing to the flowers and pretend they were the orchestra. As one of my parents' friends said, I was an odd boy.

Since doing comedy, I'm less of a show-off in real life.

I'd done some acting and I didn't like being told what to do by the director, the structure of it.

Normally during the week between Christmas and New Year I'm slumped in a chair in Birmingham, eating, farting and spouting total nonsense.

When I started stand-up, it was really just to have a go at alpha males essentially, there was no plan and there never has been really.

I always loved 'The Weakest Link' and how brutal Anne Robinson was on it.

I was quite a fat lad.

I love 'Pointless.'

The Time It Takes' is one of the most brilliantly daft shows I've ever been involved in - and that's saying something.

I don't want someone to be nice and friendly while telling me my bill's gone up by 10 per cent because they've just decided that.

I'm so British and polite that creating a scene or being confrontational is so not my vibe.

It's a bit embarrassing for a company to be exposed for wrongdoing, but it's really embarrassing if it's done by making them the butt of a joke.

Alan Carr is an out and proud gay man but there isn't a famous bisexual equivalent - it's a lot rarer.

I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!

I sleep all the time! I often leave an event early because I want to have a snooze.

Even though I now eat meat, I have halloumi every day - even at breakfast.

I think the city isn't talked about enough, there are not enough people championing Birmingham. When I was at university in Manchester I wasn't a fan, I was a bit down on my home city. But as I've got older I love living here. It's easy to get around the country to gigs, and it's a calming, friendly city.

I never wanted to be famous, I just wanted to be creative for my job, I suppose, and perform.

My philosophy is, if I couldn't say it in front of my grandmother, I probably shouldn't say it.

It is amazing that I'm making a career out of comedy, my family can't quite believe it.

I don't do vulgarity, I prefer to talk about nice things.

I often ask people in the audience what their favourite cheese is. Anything less than Gruyere and they're just not middle class!

I think it's important some people do publicly go 'Hey, I'm not straight and I'm not gay. I'm somewhere in the middle and that's ok.'

I think it's important to go out and gig all over the country, it makes you a better comic.

As a child, I used to bite my toenails, which is grim. I can still do it.

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

I used to sing classical music to the flowers in the garden and imagine they were all different parts of the orchestra. It used to really annoy the neighbours.

I do a very good impression of Louis Armstrong.

When you're going into companies and you're secret filming, I didn't realise the amount of protection that you need legally before you can do just the slightest thing.

I think it's something to do with the nurturing side of the psyche; tying up a sunflower or whatever and helping it grow, it is just some kind of core human experience.

I would like to be constantly thinking about life, trying to make it funny.

The idea was to become an actor. Then I found I really didn't like acting.

I just want people to have a laugh.

As a comic, you just want to be liked.

I buy flowers for myself all the time. I'm comedy's Elton John.

I remember weeping silently in bed after watching 'Titanic.'

You can't go too far wrong with the Pointer Sisters.

I quite like the idea that I'm a situation.

My sewing skills are terrible!