A biography for Tom Rosenthalhasn’t been written yet.
“I got really into 'Episodes.'”
“If people ask me for one-liners I always say: 'Hoovering. That sucks.'”
“I didn't have a bar mitzvah, my family aren't practising Jews.”
“There's something about the word springboard I don't like. It's got too many negative connotations.”
“I'm a hilarious prankster on set, guys!”
“People should genuinely care about stand-up. I'm not doing this just so I can do x, y, and z on TV. It's an art form, not just a vehicle to get into making documentaries.”
“I love standup, but it's self-indulgence. Me saying what I think and thinking people should listen to it.”
“I don't really watch dramas. I prefer watching comedy. Also, when you're in comedy, watching 'Community' or 'Larry Sanders' feels like research, but it's really fun. I try and justify it that way.”
“I've always been interested by anybody with any thoughts as to what it is we are all doing here. It's fairly confusing and if I spend all my time watching Arsenal and the 'The Traitors' I'm never going to find out.”
“If you introduce me to someone, I won't say my name. I will just offer them a part in 'Plebs.'”
“I've had a lovely life, born with a silver spoon.”
“My parents know I am not normal but it doesn't make a difference in their mind whether I am or I am not.”
“I do feel like I've got this power - it does feel like I've got this lasso-ing ability to get people in 'Plebs.'”
“I'd be a fool to say I wasn't interested in playing the Doctor but I honestly haven't heard anything at all.”
“It's nice to be able to make a room full of people laugh, and there is a lot of merit to stand-up as an art form.”
“I've always watched Christmas specials. It's amazing - even more mind-blowing than having an advert of your face on the Tube - to think I'm going to be in a Christmas special because it's kind of the only thing I like about Christmas.”
“If I didn't love sport that would kind of have meant I didn't get on with my dad but I have a lovely relationship with him and 95 per cent of that is because I like sport.”
“When I first saw stand-up it was Lee Evans. Then I got into Ricky Gervais - we're both from Reading.”
“If I have cream or milk, I tend to throw up, immediately.”
“People go up to Edinburgh thinking it will make them a star, and generally, in the first few weeks back they have to realise that, well, they're not.”