"Mr Selfridge, Call the Midwife, Ripper Street, Blandings. Thud, thud, thud, thud. It’s like being run over by a steam train driven by a man in a stovepipe hat"
The comedian and writer plays Baxter, Lord Emsworth's secretary, in the second episode of BBC1's PG Wodehouse adaptation
"Blandings is a world unto itself and Wodehouse pours into it his deepest feelings for England"
"I’ve been a character actor for 25 years and nobody’s ever cast me for my sexual attraction... So it’s not something I worry about”
"It was like drinking a beautiful, nourishing soup - the cleverness of his language, the idiosyncratic form it takes"
Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and a pig star in the Sunday night adaptation of PG Wodehouse's stories