When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.
I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, 'Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?' But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laug...
I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they ma...