Limmy

With my upbringing and where I grew up, people slagged people. If you slagged them, they'd slag you back... I know it pales in comparison to genuine issues that people have got, but I've had people slagging my stuff off on my blog and my website for years.

I think everybody in the world should agree to no care about anything. But we'll all have to do it at the same time.

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

I'd never dance at school discos, I couldn't believe people could show themselves like that.

Once you get it in your head you're finished with something, to go back, it hurts.

I always wanted to get on the telly. Then see when I did, and there was talk about doing more online, Comedy Labs or iPlayer, I was: 'Naw, naw, naw, I want to be On The Telly that sits in the living room and folk watch it together.

I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It's supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn't laugh. They shouldn't laugh.

Actually, I just want to entertain people. Put that in my obituary, a final picture, all dark in the background.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

I really like violence in writing and films.

I sometimes wonder if I'm a psychopath.

People say 'Limmy's Show' is kind of hit or miss, but I'd rather that than having something generally likable.

I love 'The Twilight Zone,' the original black and white ones with Rod Serling's wee bit at the beginning.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

I love saying terrible things. Things that I think are terrible and I've gotten in to trouble in the past - just hearing it come out of my mouth or seeing it typed and seeing it out there - something terrible that in real life isn't funny.

Going to the doctors - for me that was quite brave, taking that first step. That was a bit scary, saying that I wanted to go on anti-depressants.

I've always been a very open person, all my life, even at school.

I've never been an embarrassed, 'never talk about their feelings' sort of person.

I've been told to 'man up' after talking about depression on Twitter. Man up means 'be strong because that's what a man is.' And they don't just mean physical strength, they mean emotional strength. What, because men get into fights or go to wars to fight? It should be 'woman up.'

I don't need a lot: I've got a telly, a computer - what else can you get me?

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

People say what they think online because it's not to your face. That's a good thing. You don't really want people just being nice to you with their opinions.

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

I've said things on Twitter that I've said deliberately because I think they're out of order, I think that's the sense of humour that I've got. I like saying things that I think are terrible, because it gives me a buzz.

The very first time I did stand-up, that was terrifying.

I would like to one day write a nice big novel and enjoy writing it and people enjoy reading it but I cannae be bothered or I don't have any ideas that would fill up a big book like that.

Some people don't seem to be able to distinguish between humour and what you really feel. They forget that there's a difference between what's real and what's a fantasy or joke.

I've said before I think the best thing about social media is that it brings people together and the worst thing about social media is that it brings people together. You're assuming that the people following you know what type of person you are and what type of humour you have.

For me, in my mind personally and privately, there are no limits to comedy.

I would rather there's somebody who is just a wee bit down in the dumps believing that they've got depression and going to the doctor and getting it checked out, than not, I'd rather that everybody was given the benefit of the doubt.

I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.

There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.

My issue with all sort of social justice stuff and leftie stuff, and I would put myself on a social justice leftie side, is some of the terminology is jargon.

I'm alright with being disliked rather than trying to be perfect, because you get to relax then.

I've got a sick sense of humour, a dark sense of humour. I do care about things and care about people but there's another side to me.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I think I called myself an entertainer on my son's birth certificate. That sounds a bit Sammy Davis Jr. or Brian Conley, the sort of guy you just drop into a room and let them 'entertain.'

Some people don't like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn't a big deal.

I'm a pretty solitary type of person.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

My maw died when I was 20. You tune into the radio or the telly and life goes on. Things keep on happening. The world doesnae stop.

Trolling can be a great way to engage with the world, a way to regain self-esteem and happiness, or, dare I say it, a way of life.

One thing I like to do is visit technical forums and ask for help regarding an entirely fictitious problem I'm having with my software. When I receive help, I say, 'Nope. Didn't work.' If they guide me to a button to click, I say, 'Nope. Can't see it.' Sometimes I just reply with nothing but 'Nope,' and it drives them up the wall.

My name is Brian and I am a troll. An internet troll.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

I think trolling is a sort of art form, a bit of a craft.

I was asked before to go out on '8 out of 10 Cats,' and I've been asked to go on 'Question Time,' I said to no to that. I don't see myself coming across well on that sort of thing.

I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.