A biography for Josh Widdicombehasn’t been written yet.
“I shrunk my favourite jeans in my first week of university. I'd never done a wash before.”
“I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn't too clever but I wasn't in the bottom group. I wasn't loud but I wasn't quiet. I wasn't a bully and I wasn't bullied.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've got no pretence that I want to do 'Hamlet' or anything, I know my limitations.”
“No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.”
“I love my wife and daughters, but there are times you want to put them in the bin.”
“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.”
“I met Rachel Riley from 'Countdown' once.”
“I would never ever want to be an actor playing anyone other than myself. I can't do voices or anything. No, it's not for me. There are lots of people who are trained actors and I feel it's offensive for me to do it.”
“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.”
“There's enough really good actors out of work without me trying to steal any of it.”
“I moved to London when I was 21 and I needed a job. I'd just done a year working in Waterstones in Manchester and I was looking for any old job. This advertisement came up for an editorial assistant on Dora the Explorer Magazine. Because I'd been working in the Children's Department in a bookshop for a year I just nailed the interview.”
“The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.”
“What I've learnt from 'Friends' is don't let the characters get together because then it won't be as good afterwards.”
“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.”
“Successful comedians are just as neurotic as I am.”
“I really didn't think anything would come out of doing stand-up.”
“What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.”