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I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, a diplomat, or a spy. To spice them up, I got some mates to have a clown fight behind Paddy Ashdown, and to kick a football at David Mellor, which accidentally smacked him right in the face. We followed Peter Mandelson around with a fan club of monsters. I made the front page of the Guardian dressed as Frankenstein. It liberated me from trying to be this right-on, political anarchist. No one from Channel 4 ever contacted us. Trigger Happy was all about someone having a very slow nervous breakdown to gorgeous music.

When it was announced it was going out at 9. How did that happen? The big mobile has been redrawn as a satirical take on mobile phone culture, but it was just a good way of interrupting things that irritated me, like classical concerts and poncy restaurants.

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The only thing we could talk about was cricket. It was that or the second world war — he was a pilot in the war. What really annoyed me is that I had kids and I would have liked him to connect with my kids.

He kind of did so, but never properly, it was all a bit of a disappointment really. Weirdly, it made it easier when he died a couple of months ago. He'd gone, but I felt I had kind of grieved for him 20 years ago.

I've got a half-brother in Greece and two half-sisters in Lebanon and England. I'm not close to them. I've got a really good relationship with my mum. I see her a lot.

But in terms of being a grandma, she's so English and hands-off and doesn't know what to do with small children.

My wife can't believe what my family are like. She's got six brothers and sisters, and when we married she was worried I'd find it overwhelming. But it's brilliant because it's the family I never had. I proposed to my wife six weeks after we met.