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I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

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I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

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There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

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I still get blokes who say, 'Oh you hate men, don't you?' And I say, 'No, I just hate you.' I really love doing that, just to see the look on their faces.

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I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

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There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

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To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

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I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

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Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

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With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Comedian

Born: May 3rd, 1957

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