Make lots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three.

In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and….

One of my friends went on a murder weekend, now he is doing life for it..

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rath….

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest..

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my sc….

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner..

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me..

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways..

Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpf….

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem….

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character..

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers..

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's importan….

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's alwa….

I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them..

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and the….

I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it..

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly..

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disci….

The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face.