‘I may be 60, but I still love pop music, listen to Radio 1 and go to festivals like Glastonbury. People think it’s odd...’

Anderson; afterwards, as always, we’d definite all go for a curry. I’d end the day back at home in north London watching the Italian mafia TV drama Gomorrah. The happiest moment you will cherish forever... Telling Isaac two years ago article that he’d got a scholarship to his sec- We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly ondary school. I was a very proud dad. probing questions – and only accept The saddest time that shook your world... Losing my parents – Roger, THE definitive answer. This week: who died in 2012 aged 94, and Susan, who died last year aged 92. They’d had actor and comedian Angus Deayton long lives, but it was still very sad. The prized possession you value above The book that holds an everlasting The unfulfilled ambition that continues all others... George Best’s table place resonance... I quite like ‘chick to haunt you... To score in Robbie Wil- card from a party hosted by David and lit’, and I was engrossed liams’s Soccer Aid match. I’ve played Victoria Beckham in 2002. I’m a big by the characters in twice, but no longer get the call! Man Utd fan and I chatted to George David Nicholls’s The philosophy that underpins your there. He invited me to a party at his novel One Day. life... Everything is for the best in this, house and he wrote his address on the The figure from the best of all possible worlds. Voltaire back of the card. The party never hap- history for whom wrote it in Candide and it reflects my pened, then he died in 2005, but the The priority activity The misapprehension about yourself you’d most like to buy a own optimistic approach to life. card is framed and sits on my desk. if you were the Invis- you wish you could erase... That my pie and a pint... Duncan ible Man for a day... surname is pronounced ‘Dayton’, The order of service at your funeral... The biggest regret you wish you could Edwards, one of the ‘Busby I’d listen to the audi- instead of the correct way, ‘Deeton’. I’d want my son to sing Tim Minch- amend... That I’ve never lived abroad. Babes’ who died in the ence in the bar after People still get it wrong all the time. in’s Prejudice – better known as ‘Only I always fancied the idea of being an Munich air disaster in 1958. Sir one of my shows to The event that altered the course of a ginger can call another ginger, gin- ex-pat in Italy or France. Bobby Charlton told me he was the hear what they really thought of it. your life and character... When my ger’. Isaac is ginger and it’s his party best footballer he ever played with. The temptation you wish you could The piece of wisdom you would pass sketch show KYTV was commis- piece. Then my friend resist... Watching an extra episode of The film you can watch time and time on to a child... Be yourself. Everyone sioned by BBC2 in 1988 after I’d been will sing Nessun Dorma and Richard a TV series late at night. Suddenly again... I’ve seen This Is Spinal Tap six else is taken. doing radio for nearly a decade. After Curtis will give a speech. it’s 2am and I think, ‘Oh no, I’ve got times. It’s the perfect mockumentary. The treasured item you lost and wish that, everything really kicked off. The way you want to be remembered... to get up early for work.’ The pet hate that makes your hackles you could have again... Each of the The way you would spend your fantasy He could have played for Man Utd! The person who has influenced you rise... Speed cameras. They’re not three dogs I’ve owned. The last one, 24 hours, with no travel restrictions... The Plug... Angus Deayton’s sketch most... . I about safety, they’re about making Biba, a mongrel, died last November – I I’d have pancakes with maple syrup for show Radio Active is on at The Pleas- met him at Oxford Uni- millions in fines. was devastated. breakfast in New York, then play dou- ance during Edinburgh Festival Fringe, versity in 1978 and he bles on Wimbledon’s Centre Court with The song that means most to The unending quest that drives you 3-28 August. Visit edfringe.com. n asked me to be in his show my friends Annabel Croft, Andrew you... When She Loved Me from on... To keep playing football until the As told to Rob McGibbon at the Edinburgh Festival. Castle and Alistair McGow- Toy Story 2, sung by day I die. I play every Tuesday night I was studying French an. Afterwards I’d take my ­Jessie the cowgirl toy with a bunch of friends in north Lon- and German and if it son Isaac, 15, to Doyles in when she’s dumped don. It’s the highlight of my week. wasn’t for him Sydney for lunch. I’d have by her owner. It’s I’d probably The poem that touches your soul... The oysters and John Dory, with so moving. never have lyrics to What A Fool Believes by The white wine. We’d then ski got into show- The unlikely Doobie Brothers are as good as any in Courchevel, and I’d pop business. interest that poem. They’re about unrequited love. into Le Bel Air restaurant engages your The crime you would commit knowing for an egg liqueur called Right: Woody curiosity... I may be you could get away with it... I’d obliter- Bombardino. In the and Jessie in Toy 60, but I still love pop music, ate a chunk of Chelsea inhabited by the evening I’d play football Story 2. Above right: A Man Utd shirt and listen to Radio 1 and go awful Sloane set, who try to emulate with our team the Snakepit football boots. Far to festivals like Glastonbury. aristocracy and correct you for saying Strollers, which includes right: Glastonbury People think it’s odd. ‘dinner’ when they think it’s ‘supper’. David Baddiel and Clive

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