“When I was seven, I went on a school trip to Blankenberge on an overni...” — Hugh Dennis Quote

“When I was seven, I went on a school trip to Blankenberge on an overnight ferry and I remember watching the White Cliffs of Dover disappear into the distance. After that trip, our family always spent holidays in Britain and Ive been to nearly every cathedral in Britain.”

“After university, I travelled through China for about two or three months in 1985. It was very much a closed-off country and no one spoke English, so it was very hard travelling through it.”

“I like doing live stand-up because that's where I started. If you do TV and radio you just send it out into the ether and you never find out if people like it or not. To go out and make an audience laugh is nice.”

“I cut the cord for my son, which was a tremendous pleasure, though Ive never eaten calamari since.”

“We had an enormous rhubarb patch at home and my mother forced me to eat that stuff without any sugar for most of my childhood.”

“I really wanted to be a captain of industry. I worked at Unilever as brand manager for Lynx after university. While I don't regret leaving, I wish I still had a bit of power.”

“When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.”

“I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.”

“Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.”

“Americans are much more open than people in Britain.”

“In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'”

“The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.”