I suppose if your parents die in their 50s and you are approaching 50, you see that you are definitely not in the first half of your life any more.

Looking back at my school reports, I start off as quite a swotty kid, and then when I get to 12 or 13, my teachers start saying: 'Lee has started to joke around a lot in class.' After that, it's a steady graph of decline, with the jokes increasing and increasing.

My only ambition was to get to 50, and not regret not having had a crack at being a comic.

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