Bob Mortimer

You know the thing I liked about fishing when I was 14 was being out with your mates mucking about, throwing bread around, getting a bit wet maybe. ”

I remember when I worked at the solicitor's - you'd go in, talk to your mates for a bit and then get down to work. With us the talking to your mates part never stops. ”

You can have a mate for 30 years, it's easy. ”

I love 'Big Brother.' I adore it. What can I say. It just suits me fine. ”

When I was about 13, I went to see this band called Free, who I'd never heard, and I just fell in love with them. I found my heroes. I stood at the front with my chin on the stage. ”

In broadcasting, there's a lot of longevity offered to people like Griff Rhys Jones and Stephen Fry, who are polymaths more than comics. We're comics first and foremost. ”

I was so young when my dad died that I didn't think it had affected me. I had such tiny memories of him, just little glimpses, I thought I had been unaffected. But then I realised, somewhere in my late 40s I think, that probably the defining thing in my whole life was losing my dad. ”

The best part of our lives is just every day when we are writing. ”

We live very ordinary lives. ”

There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second. ”