Ben Miller

I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else. ”

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny. ”

I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians. ”

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really. ”

Things like 'The Office,' and arguably shows like 'The Only Way Is Essex,' are comedies, just using real people in real situations. ”

It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000. ”

I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves. ”

Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success. ”

Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what he's doing. ”

I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot. ”