Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.

I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.