I just find little things in life funny, it's why I giggle during my shows.

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

Coming up with your own opinion is hard. When I go to see a movie I don't really know if I enjoyed it, so I ask my wife and listen to people talking on the way out. If they all say it was magnificent I'll agree!

Making the 'Big Show' has been the most fun I've had on telly.

Australia is fun, but completely exhausting and confusing because I never get on with the different time zone.

I'm thrilled at the continued success of the 'Big Show.'

The last thing you want is for people not to care about what you have to say.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

I would never be rude about somebody else in my profession because we all do this same thing. We're just trying to make people laugh.

I've got some Jewish ancestry and I don't like waste.

Men need to be with women otherwise I don't think they really know how to behave. They'll just stare at me and it's awkward, so I scramble around in my mind to say the rudest things I can think of just to get something out of them.

Ruthlessness is not something that comes easily.

I had some terrible times - comparatively speaking. I saddled myself with a load of debt, I wasn't liked by a lot of my fellow comics and I used to blame other people for me not getting a break. But now I realise I just wasn't very good. And as soon as I became good, things took off pretty quickly.

There's nothing better than having a bright, blinding light in your face and being guided by big, rolling laughter. There's nothing more encouraging than hearing that huge sound. I've waited my whole life to hear that. You come away with the biggest high of your life.

A responsive crowd is great - they help you see new things in your comedy.

Now I almost overly embrace how weird I am, how I look and how oddly camp I am. It's almost too honest for me because I harboured ambitions to be quite a cool, good-looking guy.

Hard audiences tend to be when it's all men. It's when businesses have dos where they're at conferences all day then book a comedian for the evening. They're men of a certain age - basically middle-aged, balding, 50 to 60 years old and I just know I can't make these people laugh hysterically.

Our family home, a large house in Hampstead, was sold to Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. I remember being told that 'someone who eats bats' was buying it.

If you can help it, don't be rude to people. When you're rude about someone and the audience laugh you can't deny that it's a bullying laugh.

One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.

I bought my wife a beautiful diamond ring and I even had it engraved - with the price.

The older I get, as well, bloody hell - time's running out. I just feel, jeez, there's so much to do. I'm not going to try to change the planet but make changes just in a small way.

For me, Christmas was always about presents. As a child, we each had an allotted place in the sitting room for the ceremonial unwrapping and mine was perched beside the telly on a Moroccan pouffe. We would watch our mum with bated breath as she divided up the gifts.

There is something a bit volatile about hosting a big live show like 'Eurovision.' Anything could literally happen.