"I think women with children are better than men. This is only my opinion. Might be 'cos me Mum brought me up. I think maternally, they just take to being a parent quicker than men."
"And when the kids were born, I had that strange working-class mentality of these kids are here now, I've gotta provide for 'em."
"It’s very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult."
"Every parent just wants their child to be happy and to protect them. I should be the happiest I have ever been with my career, family and friends, but I can honestly say I am never happy in myself now. I constantly worry about them."
"I play along myself, even though I can’t help the player. So I can’t say what I think the answer might be. But I’ll be playing in my head, while they are."
"Benchmark has got a lot of playability. You can sit with your family and friends, and you’ll all have an opinion about what the answer is. What’s amazing is when some of the answers are revealed, it creates even more discussion."
"Stand up is the most stressful, and hosting and presenting a show has its own stresses, because you’ve got an audience which you’ve got to entertain as well as an audience at home."
"The worst job that I ever did, I used to have a Saturday job cleaning the dough off bread-making machines for Warburtons in Bolton. That was horrendous."
"When you’re filming any show off a live audience, you get a feedback straightaway about how it’s going, and the audience always enjoyed it."
"The one thing I made a point of doing, when we were sat with the producers rehearsing, is I’d never see the answers."
"I was just like that anyhow - wherever I used to work, jobs-wise, I’d always be in the canteen talking to people and laughing and everything."
"I'm just a simple man from Bolton but I think we should use more natural sources."
"I'd like people to be more aware of the benefits of communities. Lots of problems could be solved that way."
"A lot of my new material is about being a dad for the first time, about how amazing and stressful it is to be a parent. But don’t worry, you will still laugh if you have never had kids."
"Even when you’re right in the middle of a tour and you’ve done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage."
"There’s nothing nicer than hearing people laughing."
"Janice Connolly is one of them people that whenever you see her, she’s happy."
"I think the good thing about 'Take Me Out', which is kind of a compliment to us really, is that when it started doing well round about the second series and people started getting into it, all of a sudden every time you turned over a channel there's a new dating show on."
"I did loads of jobs all the way through college, just for a bit of money in my pocket. There were some tough jobs, but I was lucky enough I enjoyed doing them. It was okay."
"I don't think it's necessary to do stand-up to be a presenter, but I like it, because it keeps me sharp, especially when something like 'Take Me Out' is 80% is ad-libbed, so that works for me."
"I don't do the show business lifestyle, you'll never see me rolling out of parties with a goody bag in my hand. My night out is a night in, with friends round for dinner."
"I mean, I'm always optimistic about most things I do and never bank my hopes on anything, but I got what 'Take Me Out' was right from the word go."
"I think the charm that 'Take Me Out' has, is that your mum and dad can watch, understand and enjoy it, students can understand it and you can watch it with your friends."
"You'll always remember your first car and the memories that come with it - that sense of adventure!"
"I think blokes definitely sweat on most things when it comes to being questioned by women."
