I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

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

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.