Tom Rosenthal

“The great part of being in a play or a sitcom is that you're telling someone else's story. Standup is just you, exposing your demons to make people laugh. The worry is that if I was doing it every night, those demons would become me - and I'd forget they were bad.”

“I look like Tamsin Greig but minus a few years and a wig.”

“I've never been a massive Christmas fan.”

“My parents think I am crazy in the proudest way.”

“I played a lot of 'FIFA 97' and learned all the flags.”

“I myself live in Islington, where inhabitants range slightly more widely from yummy-croissant and smoothie-loving-mummies to garage-blasting Nokia-sponsored reprobates.”

“Edinburgh can be a hard and wet place.”

“I went to Mongolia as a teenager and I thought it would be cool to dye my hair into a Mongolian flag; a red-blue-red mohican with a patch of yellow.”

“I have a T-shirt which has a face on it and a pocket in the mouth and when you pull the pocket out it looks like a tongue. It goes down well with young children.”

“Every comedian thinks deeply about life, even if their eventual output is apparently shallow.”

“If I could do any scenes that would just involve me being asleep, that would be gold. Anything outside or where I'm standing up... I'm really not a fan of.”