It happens a lot every four years, or it used to, every time the Paralympics comes around. They'll be like: 'We've had this idea to put all these disabled people together in this comedy show. We've had the idea to send all these disabled people away together.' I've always thought that's segregation and not integration.

More Quotes by Chris McCausland

I am a self-confessed rock fan and metal head, but I love good music, and 40 years on the Pet Shop Boys still have it.

I've been a stand-up now for over two decades and I am lucky enough to enjoy the privilege of being able to tour and fill theatres.

Stand-up doesn't terrify me or even make me nervous beyond some pre-show restless excitement.

I love stand-up, but it has become so normal and natural to me that the buzz comes from the adrenaline of a great show rather than from the fear or nerves of doing something new and unknown.

Strictly,' I thought, could actually be the best thing that I've ever done - possibly, maybe, well either that or three weeks that I'll never live down.

I want to fit into the electric atmosphere of a live 'Strictly' show and for the crowd to be entertained and not to have the atmosphere flattened to accommodate me. I would rather go out in week two having disastrously immersed myself in the show's noisy energy than get through to week 10 in silence.