72 Quotes by Josh Widdicombe

I really struggled with doing nine-to-five and just wanted to do something where it felt like I was in charge and I was doing something creative. I imagine if the first gig had gone badly I'd never have done it again. I imagine there's hundreds of people who could have been really great comedians and just had a bad first gig.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

I met Rachel Riley from 'Countdown' once.

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

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

Pointless' - I think it's probably the greatest daytime TV show that has ever existed.

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

I've learnt that from stand-up - you should always worry that it's going to go badly, otherwise you're too laissez faire.

I moved to London when I was 21 and I needed a job. I'd just done a year working in Waterstones in Manchester and I was looking for any old job. This advertisement came up for an editorial assistant on Dora the Explorer Magazine. Because I'd been working in the Children's Department in a bookshop for a year I just nailed the interview.