As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.