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Joe Lycett
It's a cliche, but the people who enjoy your work and who come up and say, 'I enjoyed that and I liked that,' they are the people who ultimately are keeping you in work. And so, it would be rude and ungrateful of me to be anything but polite.
I've got really into gardening.
Every hairstyle I have is funny because my barber is a standup comedian by the slightly unfortunate name of Paul Sweeney. His cuts are fantastic but the chats are even better.
My parents have always been very supportive and it hasn't been an issue. Mum worried I might get more problems in life because of my bisexuality but I think people are more liberal now.
I'm not sure if I'm an introvert or extrovert. I love being around people, but sometimes I do need to go off and fart.
I make a sensational chicken, chorizo and mung bean stew.
I'd love to grow a pair of discreet wings so I could just fly around a bit and impress people.
I nearly got hit by a car while I was trying to write a stupid joke but a female sheep stood in the way. I can't thank ewe enough.
There are many terms that have been used to describe me: man, comedian, disappointment, hammock enthusiast.
If anything kept me awake at night it would be worrying that there wouldn't be enough time to have a nap the next day.
I try and avoid the big comics in Edinburgh. You can see them on tour. Edinburgh is all about seeing the smaller comedians.
I'm a qualified swimming instructor.
Life is hard. There's parking fines, PPI, the Kardashians - it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed.
I beam at the idea of me at the wheel of a luxury yacht, surrounded by models and moguls, sipping cool Gavi di Gavi as we meander down the French Riviera.
I like to show off. But I'm not fussed about fame particularly, I don't go to things and I don't go to celeb events or whatever, that's not really my vibe.
I love living in Birmingham, it's just a lovely gentle life, and it's calm. And it's full of Brummies who I find hilarious.
I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it.
Will & Grace' was my favourite show growing up and retains a special place in my heart, not least because it was such a refreshing and witty insight into gay life. The older me loves 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'
I've developed a fun text when a friend has just had a baby. I ask a classic question: 'Are you sleeping?' The reply is inevitably that they aren't, they're getting a few hours here and there, they're exhausted. It's then when I swoop in: 'It'll all be worth it when they're softly stroking your hair as you slip into oblivion.'
I get frustrated with companies that present themselves as your mates. They use emojis in the messages they send you, and they're very casual with their back-and-forth. That doesn't work if they've rinsed you of all your money.
Companies ignoring their customers. I think it's unforgivable. And I count using a chatbot on your website as ignoring your customers. Stop doing it.
I'm a bit done with weddings. There are so many and I'm so bored of them.
If you organise a dinner party, and two guests cancel, it is still a dinner party: you still get to eat dinner.
I am a rare millennial who managed to buy property thanks to a mix of highly lucrative TV panel show work and employing Gary Barlow as a financial adviser.
I don't want a little Oliver/Olivia parasite running about eating my biscuits. My friends, on the other hand, are procreating like humanity depends on it, and it doesn't.
There's a viral video of a young girl learning to say 'who' but pronouncing it as 'wah' which I think could be one of the funniest things that has ever happened.
I did a tweet about LGBTQ+ and someone was saying 'what's the + and what's the Q?' and some people would be like 'you should educate yourself it's disgusting, google it.' If I asked the question, they would answer it to me, so just try and treat people in the way I expect to be treated myself. So I do think that's been a problem in our community.
Best place I've visited is probably Tanzania when I was younger and I'd love to go to America as I haven't been to loads of places there yet.
I get frustrated by the way camp is portrayed sometimes. Camp, for me, is a nice 'everyone is welcome' kind of thing rather than an 'ooh, what's she wearing' kind of thing.
Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for squares.
I am the promise guardian to a wonderful girl called Grace, a role akin to a godfather but without the Christian responsibilities, as I am a devout Jedi.
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.