I never finished looking at Twitter happier than when I've started looking at Twitter. And it's not because of abuse or anything. Even just refreshing what people are saying about you, I don't think is a healthy way to kind of perceive yourself.

Josh Widdicombe

Health Art Yourself

I have never bought into this view that some people have that the job of the comedian is to espouse opinions and change the world - I think the job of a comedian is to be funny.

Josh Widdicombe

Funny Change World

Having an awful landlord can be a good thing, it can bring you together as a household.

Josh Widdicombe

Good You Use

Nothing unites a group more than a common enemy, be it the Soviet Union or Nasty Nick from 'Big Brother.'

Josh Widdicombe

Up Unites Unite

I shrunk my favourite jeans in my first week of university. I'd never done a wash before.

Josh Widdicombe

Week Wash University

I've got no pretence that I want to do 'Hamlet' or anything, I know my limitations.

Josh Widdicombe

Want Thing Thin

I was once doing a gig with Tim Vine; he was backstage, and there was one of those long strings of polystyrene coffee cups. He picked up the whole stack of about 20, walked on stage and then said: 'Bloody hell this coffee's hot!' which I think is the funniest thing anyone has ever said.

Josh Widdicombe

Age Wit Whole

I really struggled with doing nine-to-five and just wanted to do something where it felt like I was in charge and I was doing something creative. I imagine if the first gig had gone badly I'd never have done it again. I imagine there's hundreds of people who could have been really great comedians and just had a bad first gig.

Josh Widdicombe

Great Wit Who

I met Rachel Riley from 'Countdown' once.

Josh Widdicombe

UN T Own

When I first went to university, I did a big shop with my dad. We bought loads of stuff but it didn't occur to me that I needed to refrigerate it, so I just put it in my room. I remember thinking, 'What's that smell coming from under the bed?' It was a bag of potatoes. How long does it take for a potato to rot? Months!

Josh Widdicombe

Wit Us University

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

Josh Widdicombe

Funny UN T

The weird thing is I have now met quite a lot of people who are really famous but they are always disappointingly normal and nice. Alan Carr is very nice indeed. Exactly how you would expect him to be, and not that different from how he is on stage.

Josh Widdicombe

Famous Car Age

Never have I got on better with my flatmates than when our landlord installed a dodgy deadlock and locked us out of our flat for a full Friday evening.

Josh Widdicombe

Wit Us Than

There are lots of comic bosses and fathers in sitcoms, but the comic landlord remains rare.

Josh Widdicombe

T Sitcoms Sitcom

I find writing is the most fun I have in comedy.

Josh Widdicombe

Writing UN Tin

Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy, that if you get one thing wrong, the whole castle comes falling down.

Josh Widdicombe

You Wrong Writing

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy when you get quite demoralised about yourself.

Josh Widdicombe

Good Yourself Yours

Pointless' - I think it's probably the greatest daytime TV show that has ever existed.

Josh Widdicombe

Time Great TV Show

Comedy has got me all these opportunities and I enjoy doing a variety of things. I can't really believe I've got the chance to have my own radio show.

Josh Widdicombe

Chance Variety Unit

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

Josh Widdicombe

T Stuff Rent

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

Josh Widdicombe

Funny UN T

I don't think you can only have people with disability talking about the Paralympics. Clare Balding didn't need to be disabled to cover it.

Josh Widdicombe

I love my wife and daughters, but there are times you want to put them in the bin.

Josh Widdicombe

The owner of one club once interrupted my set to inform me that my taxi had arrived. I don't think he meant it to sound as cutting as it did.

Josh Widdicombe

I never finished looking at Twitter happier than when I've started looking at Twitter. And it's not because of abuse or anything. Even just refreshing what people are saying about you, I don't think is a healthy way to kind of perceive yourself.

Josh Widdicombe

If one of my friends said they'd written a little role for me in a sitcom, I'd definitely do it and I'd enjoy it. But I have no interest in being a serious actor.

Josh Widdicombe

There's enough really good actors out of work without me trying to steal any of it.

Josh Widdicombe

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

Josh Widdicombe

As students, we completely failed with the washing up. You'd constantly have to eat out of the wrong receptacle. You'd end up with a cup of cornflakes or a plate of tea.

Josh Widdicombe

I'll never have a house party again. You stand around for ages worried that nobody's coming and the next minute you're queuing for your own toilet while someone you've never met is asking you if you know whose party this is.

Josh Widdicombe

Successful comedians are just as neurotic as I am.

Josh Widdicombe

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

Josh Widdicombe

I loved 1990s television: 'The Fast Show,' 'Father Ted,' 'Harry Enfield.' 'Clive Anderson Talks Back.'

Josh Widdicombe

My favourite was 'Fantasy Football League.' I thought it would be the most exciting thing ever to be friends with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.

Josh Widdicombe

I'm lucky that I don't have any big regrets. Maybe that undercut hairstyle from my youth.

Josh Widdicombe

I'd redo the 90s as they were a lot of fun.

Josh Widdicombe

I don't get hangovers - it's some kind of superhuman ability.

Josh Widdicombe

I don't get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I'm not into films.

Josh Widdicombe

I don't like thinking too much about the future - it freaks me out.

Josh Widdicombe

Always thinking that you're not very good is far better than being cocky.

Josh Widdicombe

I never feel like I should have any time free.

Josh Widdicombe

When I was a kid I didn't watch TV that was targeted specifically at me. I watched 'The Day Today,' 'Shooting Stars,' 'Father Ted.'

Josh Widdicombe

I really didn't think anything would come out of doing stand-up.

Josh Widdicombe

I enjoy writing but I wouldn't want to do it all the time because generally you are not writing about things you want to write about.

Josh Widdicombe

I get annoyed a lot with things.

Josh Widdicombe

Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while 'Men Behaving Badly' remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever aspire to Gary and Tony's eternal adolescence?

Josh Widdicombe

Everyone likes doing impressions of me. I'm easy.

Josh Widdicombe

Can I do an impression of me? I don't think I can. It would be the most self-confronting thing you could ever do.

Josh Widdicombe

The way people do an impression of me is they use the phrase, 'Who are these people who do this... ?' Then they do some not-quite-good-enough observational humour, which is the most offensive thing.

Josh Widdicombe

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

Josh Widdicombe

Even in something surreal like 'Father Ted,' everything has to logically follow, everything has to lead one to another. The moment the logic of a situation doesn't work then you might as well not bother because people have signed out.

Josh Widdicombe