67 Quotes by Marcus Brigstocke

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.

Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'