19 Quotes by Peter Baynham

In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black icing on the cake, the agony, the slow twisting, thinning and snapping of his skeleton. Everything fell apart.

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.