i mainly vote labour because james callaghan waved at me, um, on a trip to london.and yet your dad was a tory. didn't he vote tory? he was a working—class tory, yeah. and his argument was, for not voting labour — he quoted this a lot — "if you put a beggar "on horseback, you'll ride into hell." and he felt that labour people hadn't been trained to lead the way tories had. was your dad or your mum, were your parents religious? yeah, my dad was, um, my dad was catholic. he was raised a catholic. he was a cradle catholic, as we call them. and then my mum changed to... she converted at the time of marriage, which i think was quite a common thing. because, again, i would say that most comedians, particularly those who for years have explored what you call dirt and filth and sex, they're not naturally seen as observant religious people. no. but you have come out in recent years as being absolutely a believing, observant catholic. yeah, well, i'd say one of the few areas that talk about sex more than i do is the catholic church. they chuckle. not in the same way. no, but t