I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just get out of a chair when I'm not expecting it.

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.

I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.