Quote of the day

"You know, I've had tremendous fun for the last 30 years. It is an enormously absurd way to earn a living, and you can never lose sight of that. And when you get cancer for eight months, it's a drag, but all you want to do is get back to the goofy wonderland in which you rattle around. Yes, this got in the way for a while, but let's not dwell on that."

Danny Baker, admirably refusing to get self-pitying or maudlin over his brush with cancer of the mouth and throat in an interview with the Guardian's Simon Hattenstone.