Paul Merton : (2) " My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I’ve endured over the past twenty-five years. " - Paul Merton " It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties – that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness. " - Paul Merton