A biography for Josh Widdicombehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I'm not one of those stand ups that's going to write a show about a big subject or try and tell you about the death of a parent or something.”
“I think to keep yourself fresh, you need to try different things.”
“I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.”
“I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.”
“I think when you start comedy there are some real advantages to being single and in a low-paid job. You have nothing to lose. It's not like I was a well-paid lawyer when I began. I was earning so little I was able to sell myself to it.”
“There are lots of comic bosses and fathers in sitcoms, but the comic landlord remains rare.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“Having an awful landlord can be a good thing, it can bring you together as a household.”
“I loved 1990s television: 'The Fast Show,' 'Father Ted,' 'Harry Enfield.' 'Clive Anderson Talks Back.'”
“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.”
“I don't get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I'm not into films.”
“I'd hope that when Channel 4 started, 'The Last Leg' was the kind of show it wanted to be putting out. I think they're really proud of it.”
“The great thing about a pilot is you can make your mistakes and no-one sees them... Or they see them on iPlayer and it gets taken off a year later, to be disposed of or whatever's happened to it.”
“I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.”
“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?”
“I never feel like I should have any time free.”