A biography for Richard Baconhasn’t been written yet.
“I think that trying to weaken the opposition is a weak and insecure way to run a radio station, and not one that I greatly have time for.”
“I love coming up with an angle, getting excited about it, gives me a high.”
“I Literally Just Told You' is a game show about short-term memory and how bad it is. My starting point was that you can give contestants the answer to all of the questions and they will still get them wrong. It turned out to be true. It's quite an absurd fast-moving game show.”
“Bags full of candy are a scary reminder of the childhood obesity epidemic.”
“The 'Big Breakfast' was the most enjoyable job I've ever had.”
“Kerry Katona sells 75-piece Tex Mex platters and king prawn party rings for a living. Or at least she did until Iceland dropped her.”
“People always tell me that everything I say sounds sarcastic, even when I'm trying to have a serious conversation.”
“I'm a music liker. I'm not Steve Lamacq.”
“My biggest regret is not spending more time reading when I was a teenager. My entire focus was on having fun and flirting with danger, hanging around with the kids with criminal records.”
“When I was 16 or 17 I got a job at a McDonald's in Nottinghamshire. I was given the prestigious late Friday and Saturday night shifts, which always coincided with the most violent period of the town's week. A police riot van used to be stationed permanently outside the front door.”
“I like learning things from books. Some of my favourites are George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' novels; he researched them meticulously.”
“You have got to try and work out where critical comment crosses over into harassment. Under freedom of speech people can criticise you and slag you off, it's their right to do that. It's when it becomes deeply personal, obsessive and weird.”
“I would go out first on 'Strictly Come Dancing.'”
“Five Live' was keen for me to stop doing a weekly show on Xfm. I worked there for two and a half years and I loved it, but it was slightly at odds radio wise with 'Five Live.'”
“A celebrity tour runs where I live and I've never heard a guide say my name.”
“The way I can obsessively think about an idea is actually quite normal for my dysfunctional brain type.”
“I don't like comedy' would be a really strange thing to say.”
“I want to be as rich as the person who invented 'The Chase.'”
“I actually stood inside Mission Control in Houston while a shuttle mission was under way.”
“When you meet Pamela, there's no mistaking her. She's a caricature of herself, a flashing beacon that says, 'I'm Pamela Anderson!'”