How early in your life did you realise you were funny?
I bumped into someone in the street recently from primary school who said, 'You didn't say much, but when you did it was quite funny.' I wasn't aware of that at the time. I was aware of being quite timid and not saying much. Originally, I wanted to be an actor because comedians when I was growing up were more like big guys with bow ties who told mother-in-law jokes. It wasn't until Saturday Night Live and things like that came along that suddenly it was a whole different thing, and what they used to call Alternative Comedy, which now, of course, is just comedy. That was interesting to me because I was still trying to be an actor, albeit a comedic actor, and I turned to stand-up because I reckoned I could get producers and directors to come and see me perform, and then maybe take me on. So I wasn't thinking of comedy as a job, but gradually it turned out, no one else wanted me to be an actor. I literally didn't have anything else I could do. So, I just had to keep going with stand-up. It wasn't until I sort of stuck my hair up and wore a silly jumper - when it was kind of going over to my acting side and I was playing a character - that it began to work. That was 30-35 years ago, and I'm still trying to become an actor.