Top 40 Josh Widdicombe Quotes

I don’t like thinking too much about the future – it freaks me out.

Most people I was at school with, if they saw me on telly, wouldn’t know I’d been at school with them.

Comedy has got me all these opportunities and I enjoy doing a variety of things. I can’t really believe I’ve got the chance to have my own radio show.

What I’ve learnt from ‘Friends’ is don’t let the characters get together because then it won’t be as good afterwards.

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.

If one of my friends said they’d written a little role for me in a sitcom, I’d definitely do it and I’d enjoy it. But I have no interest in being a serious actor.

Successful comedians are just as neurotic as I am.

I think the moment you’re convinced something’s going to be good is the moment that it’s not going to be.

I shrunk my favourite jeans in my first week of university. I’d never done a wash before.

There are lots of comic bosses and fathers in sitcoms, but the comic landlord remains rare.

Having a child brings with it greater responsibility. It makes you want to work more because you worry for the future.

What sitcom’s brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

I think when you start comedy there are some real advantages to being single and in a low-paid job. You have nothing to lose. It’s not like I was a well-paid lawyer when I began. I was earning so little I was able to sell myself to it.

I enjoy writing but I wouldn’t want to do it all the time because generally you are not writing about things you want to write about.

I never finished looking at Twitter happier than when I’ve started looking at Twitter. And it’s not because of abuse or anything. Even just refreshing what people are saying about you, I don’t think is a healthy way to kind of perceive yourself.

I don’t get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I’m not into films.

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.

I’ve got no pretence that I want to do ‘Hamlet’ or anything, I know my limitations.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

I loved 1990s television: ‘The Fast Show,’ ‘Father Ted,’ ‘Harry Enfield.’ ‘Clive Anderson Talks Back.’

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.

Everyone likes doing impressions of me. I’m easy.

I grew up watching ‘The Office’ and ‘Father Ted’ and all the British things at that time – ‘The Royle Family’ – and the American ones like ‘Friends,’ ‘Frasier’ and ‘The Simpsons.’

Nothing unites a group more than a common enemy, be it the Soviet Union or Nasty Nick from ‘Big Brother.’

Never have I got on better with my flatmates than when our landlord installed a dodgy deadlock and locked us out of our flat for a full Friday evening.

I’ll tell you what ‘The Simpsons’ is really good at. They’ll describe something, you don’t see it, and it’s funnier when you describe it.

I think to keep yourself fresh, you need to try different things.

Even in something surreal like ‘Father Ted,’ everything has to logically follow, everything has to lead one to another. The moment the logic of a situation doesn’t work then you might as well not bother because people have signed out.

The great thing about a pilot is you can make your mistakes and no-one sees them… Or they see them on iPlayer and it gets taken off a year later, to be disposed of or whatever’s happened to it.

The way people do an impression of me is they use the phrase, ‘Who are these people who do this… ?’ Then they do some not-quite-good-enough observational humour, which is the most offensive thing.

Can I do an impression of me? I don’t think I can. It would be the most self-confronting thing you could ever do.

I get annoyed a lot with things.

I don’t get hangovers – it’s some kind of superhuman ability.

I’d redo the 90s as they were a lot of fun.

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.

Stand-up wasn’t a calling. It was more like, ‘What can I do that isn’t going to make me really depressed?’

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.

When I was a kid I didn’t watch TV that was targeted specifically at me. I watched ‘The Day Today,’ ‘Shooting Stars,’ ‘Father Ted.’

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.

Having an awful landlord can be a good thing, it can bring you together as a household.