Nurse' couldn't be construed as laughing at the characters. You can't do something about mental illness without being genuine about the characters. Given the nature of the material, you can't fake it. That would be trite and wrong. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
In comedy, if you're going to commission something commission two series, don't commission one because so many comedies are finding their feet and you… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
If you look back at 'The Fast Show,' we always shot it nicely and tried to make it look good as well as funny. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
Bob and I got into comedy in a similar way. On the coat-tails of our mates. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
Making it big in pop would have suited me fine, although comedy is a far better world for an older person. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
There's nothing better than going down the lawn to the river for a few hours in the evening and catching your own supper. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
My dad was a very calm figure in my life and I have only good memories of him. We had a very simple relationship… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
Women would never be abusive about physical appearance. It's a no-go area, but it's an icebreaker for men. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
There's more to fishing than catching fish. It's being lost in a timeless world, away from all the chaos outside, doing something that's elemental. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
As more and more new houses get built, they just suck the water out of rivers. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
If you did something in 'The Fast Show' that didn't work, you could always deliberately undermine it, or chop it into three and run… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
When we started out, there weren't that many women in team sketch shows. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
In many ways I was lucky: my dad had a quadruple bypass in his fifties. When I had the heart stents, the guy who… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share
