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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.

When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

We're a show-and-tell generation. People want to see behind the scenes. The more involved and invited they are, the closer affinity they have to your brand.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.