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When You Tour You Become More Intimate With Your Audience. It's Like I Need Reassurance That They Like Me Or At Least Find Me Relevant. And That I Can Still Do It.

I've Met People Who've Dismissed Me, And Then They Find Out That They Like My Work, And Suddenly Their Attitude Changes Toward Me. And I Think That's Very Funny And Very Human. But It's Also Very Unattractive.

It's Like Aversion Therapy. You Keep Doing Scenes Over And Over Again With Three Women In The Bed With You, And We Had To Do Them All In One Week. Three Girls Would Step Out And Another Three Girls Would Step Into The Bed. It Sounds Like A Fantasy But By The End Of It, I Just Wanted To Go For A Hike On My Own In The North Of England, In The Hills. Because It Became A Sort Of "be Careful What You Wish For" Kinda Thing.

Big Comedy Is Good, I Like Things That Are Big, But Good Comedy Has To Be Truthful I Think And Has To Reflect Some Sort Of Reality.

I Am Not A Politician Going Around Bragging About Family Values Or Putting Myself On Some Ridiculous Virtuous Pedestal. I Write Comedy. And I Am An Actor. I Am Not Going To Solve The Nation's Problems. I Don't Actually Spend My Life In The Way The Tabloids Like To Think I Do. I Actually Spend 95 Percent Of It Writing Comedy. Sober. Well, Nearly Sober Anyway.