Most of the comedy characters I played have been extensions of my own personality and very similar to Mike Channel. It's a weird eclectic mixture of your genuine character and the character you portray.

More Quotes by Angus Deayton

I appear to have had more comebacks than Status Quo.

Football is my first love - Man United, not comedy.

I fell into presenting after doing about a decade of parody shows of presenter-based shows, and a lot of it was me parodying a presenter, so when I started doing 'Have I Got News For You', I carried on that persona.

I find it baffling that for years and years I got tremendous stick for the amount of money I earned.

The Sun once did 20 things you never knew about Angus Deayton - and I didn't know 16 of them.

I live 300 yards away from my ex and son. I see them all the time. We all went away on safari recently.