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All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.
I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.
I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.
The only people who are desperate to go on the show are people we're desperate not to have on the show.
The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.
A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.
All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly.
All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.
An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.
Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.
Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!
Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.
I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.
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