If you watch him in Porridge and Open All Hours you can't believe it's the same person.

Like all the good comics, he was a perfectionist - he wouldn't settle for anything less.

It was like an Agatha Christie thriller, trying to work out who this man was.

Everything's a competition, no matter what we do. We could go outside and walk and see who walks the fastest. I don't like losing, and he don't like losing.

Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind at the time. It had me really shaken up. I didn't know where half of my family was some days. I was scared that I was going to lose someone really important to me.