A biography for Frank Skinnerhasn’t been written yet.
“If you strip a lot of performers to the core, you find that urge to show off.”
“If you earn a lot of money you should pay a lot of tax.”
“I don't like taboo subjects and I don't like elephants in the room. If there's an elephant in the room, I really want to absolutely examine it.”
“There's only one thing more embarrassing than the celebrities talking about politics; and that's politicians talking about anything other than politics.”
“I used to do homophobic material that I didn't recognise as homophobic. It's the only stuff I really look back on and think, 'I just wouldn't do that again.'”
“I'm enjoying Channel Four's '10 O'Clock Live.' I like the idea of putting together a dream team and seeing what happens. I also like 'Not Going Out,' the sitcom starring Lee Mack. It's a sitcom packed with jokes. Not many of them as frowned upon as lacking kudos.”
“I actually like - if I may use the F word - fame. I like people stopping me in the street and saying, 'Can I have a photo?'”
“This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.”
“Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things, generally tries to have a go at doing them. But I've never thought I could write poetry.”
“There is a sense that if you're not on the telly then you might have died. I'm aware that's how people largely judge you.”
“One of the nice things about becoming a stand-up, one of the great things about becoming a stand-up, is you realise you haven't been wasting all those years you thought you'd been wasting.”
“I remember when I turned 30 and I started doing sit-ups, I split with my girlfriend and stopped drinking and all sorts of things. It was a very weird time. But 60... I like it.”
“That's the way I like my posh people, up front. I like the fact that Jack Whitehall will talk about being posh, or David Mitchell.”
“I have never managed to find a sport I'm good at - I love sport but I just can't do it.”
“I don't want a Lamborghini. Even if I was given one, I'd be like one of those people who won the speedboat on 'Bullseye' and have it in Exchange & Mart within 48 hours.”
“I love being able to talk about anything.”
“Scarily, I was only about 11 or 12 when my mum pointed out my resemblance to Stan Laurel. I know he's the ultimate loser, but I was happy to hear it.”
“I did a tour of Sweden with Eddie Izzard in our early days, and he said, 'I'm thinking of talking about being a transvestite on stage. You should talk about being a Catholic.' I said, 'I think audiences will be more accepting of you being a transvestite than me being a Catholic.'”
“The Daily Mirror called me a 'money-grabbing reptile' once. I could cope with the reptile part, but 'money-grabbing' hurt.”
“Dad was a keen Roman Catholic, but I left the church when I was 17, not because I'd stopped believing - it was more doctrinal stuff, like that there was no biblical mention of purgatory. I went back when I was 28, just before I gave up drink.”