Jon Richardson

I need to recognise that everyone is an individual and that the key to a good relationship is to recognise that. This does theme to be a theme in my stand-up as well as my writing!

I do enjoy doing the TV work, but I try to be careful not to do too much. Otherwise, you end up being recognised just for being on television rather than for your own stuff.

Somewhat naively, I entered the BBC's 'New Talent Competition,' believing it was for people who had never tried comedy before. I remember sitting in the dressing room before the show and hearing the other acts - who all knew one another - talking to Rhod Gilbert about how he must be about ready to go 'full-time' as a comic.

I like small parties with people I know. I like eating pizza at home with my girlfriend.

I shouldn't still be working out how to be misanthropic singleton comic when I'm 60. I should have moved on by then.

People associate me with being pernickety and down. In the past, I was guilty of keeping myself like that just to maintain my comic persona.