Jimmy Carr

"All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be."

"I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall."

"I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub."

"I immediately adored performing. It really empowers you when everyone's laughing. It gives you an immense buzz. You just feel on top of the world."

"So they've laughed and then they've thought, should we have laughed at that? Well, too late now. You did. I imagine I get more than my fair share of that."

"As head of the Catholic church, Pope Benedict is the boss of every Catholic priest in the world, he's effectively king of the pedos."

"If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids."

"I did quite a lot of TV shows over the latter half of 2004 - all those 100 Greatest and 100 Worst and all that kind of stuff. So I was a little bit overexposed. But I think you need to do that once in…"