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?'

I buck the trend: I eat avocados on a Sunday morning and I'm a homeowner.

Portland is incredible. It's the most amazing place.

I'll sit down for 'Stranger Things' or 'The Handmaid's Tale' - or a really good documentary.

Sometimes I skip breakfast, pop to the butcher and get sunburned while cooking meat.

It takes a lot to stop myself scrambling around and reading the news.

The last thing you want to do is preach to the converted. What you want to do is talk about issues from a non-political point of view, from a human point of view.

Real life is hard. I'm sorry, but shopping at Tesco is not as much fun as writing jokes for TV shows, and I struggle with it.

Death by rats would be the worst.

I lived at home until I was 23.

I would just like to be remembered.

I'm a bit of a Luddite.

I love Dublin and the locals are extraordinary.

Los Angeles feels empty and overrated. I struggle with it as a holiday destination. It's the sort of place where you need to know some locals, otherwise it just feels so empty.

Mumbai was magical, which I was really surprised by, and I got an insight into the world of Bollywood while hanging out with some Bollywood film stars while there.

I just don't care what people like Lily Allen think about stuff.

If you want any attention in the Howard household, you have to shout quite loudly and try to develop a personality.

Doing the O2 Arena in London in 2011 was pretty awesome.

I find it really weird, when I'm shopping in Tesco, the amount of times I have people like: 'What you doing in here? You're famous!'

I'd been writing jokes since I was 16, not very good ones though, but I was always trying to make my mates laugh.