Hugh Dennis

(on regrets) Hugh: I don't have that many regrets. Not because I have led a charmed life in which I have always made the right choices, but rather because, as a comedian, I have always known that every disaster is a potential anecdote.

(on writing at a cafe with his partner Steve Punt) Hugh: If you're writing the kind of stuff we do, it doesn't require the same discipline as writing a novel. It's really about the generation of ideas and different angles. Someone might start playing jazz and an idea comes to you. And if you're looking for inspiration, this week there's going to be a tea dance at two.

(on how he and his comedy partner Steve Punt got Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's leftovers) Hugh: [Laurie and I] had the same agent for a long time and all the way through my career, whenever he couldn't do voiceovers, I used to whip in and do them! Steve and I always used to get scripts for ads and whatnot and sometimes they had just not bothered to cross out Fry and Laurie!