“Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters.” — Charlie Murphy Quote

Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters.

I look at the world and I find the funny in it, because there's funny in everything. No matter how ugly it may be, there's a funny way to look at it.

Before stand-up, I didn't even have an agent. Once I started doing stand-up - boom. I got an agent. In fact, I got three agents. I got a lawyer. Now I get taken seriously.

If you want to laugh, see a comedy. If you want to cry, see a drama, and if you want suspense, see a thriller.

I have a very good talent at finding out exactly what it is about yourself that you don't like and then keep bringing it up.

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

I always feel with a vintage shop they've picked the best bits to show you whereas with charity shops you can find a real gem. My mum is amazing at it, she has hawk eyes, so I go with her and follow her lead!

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

I made a series set in India that was more of a conventional fishing show. The fish were very uncooperative, so we were casting around for other bits of local color. We heard local stories of something pulling people into the water. They called it the Kali man-eater. We did a bit of a feature on this, and if formed part of that series.