A lot of comedians want people to listen to them. I don't think we've ever been that bothered about whether people would want to listen to us.

There are quite detailed rules with sitcom. When people can leave scenes, act structure, joke rhythm. You can't not have a straight man.

Funnily enough, 'Shooting Stars,' that stupid little panel show, is the most influential thing we've done.

Darts is bad.

I'm not that interested in other people, and I don't have any friends, so I'm not really the ideal candidate for Twitter.

When we first did 'Big Night Out,' there was no chance of someone doing a little show in a pub then being on telly. There was a little Oxbridge route in and an old-fashioned variety route.

It's like cooks don't watch cooking programmes - I suppose maybe comedians don't watch comedy shows.

We miss 'House of Fools' a lot. It felt a bit like a different and fresh show for British TV.

I hate every moment of live performance.

I think 'the Mighty Boosh' are quite good.

We've always been a slightly specialist interest, and as you get older, for specialist interest programmes I think broadcasters are probably looking for younger talent, really.

We miss 'House of Fools' a lot. We always enjoyed doing that; it felt a bit like a different and fresh show for British TV, so we always feel attached to those sort of things.

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second.

I want people to watch us and think, 'They're idiots. They're clowns,' I want them to watch us and think Tommy Cooper or Spike Milligan.

I saw Alan Davies on a show from the London Palladium and he did a nice routine about having kids or whatever. I couldn't do that.

I like having something I can watch every single night. It suits my habits.

I love 'Big Brother.' I adore it. What can I say. It just suits me fine.

I hate dinner parties, you know, can't stand them. Friends don't bother inviting me any more, because they know I won't come. I could never think of anything to say between courses - it's a confidence thing, I suppose.

Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

I've started to get iritis, which affects the eyes. But I'm not going to give in.

I played for Middlesbrough's youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that they weren't signing me on, so that was the end of that dream. Football was my life. I played football when I got to school, football every break and football as soon as I got home.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

When I was about 13, I went to see this band called Free, who I'd never heard, and I just fell in love with them. I found my heroes. I stood at the front with my chin on the stage.