Michael McIntyre: 'Comedians are nasty to me'

Michael McIntyre has described how he felt "awful" after fellow comedians made jokes at his expense at the British Comedy Awards.

The Britain's Got Talent judge said that there was "an amazing amount of hostility" towards him - from comedians such as Stewart Lee - following his 'Best Male Comic' win.

"Quite a few people were making jokes at my expense and it just made me feel awful," he told Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. "I'm there with my wife - and she's gone out and bought a dress - and it's my big night and I won and the overriding experience was that of nastiness.

"For what reason I don't know. All I was doing was just making people laugh. I would never be rude about somebody else in my profession because we all do this same thing. We're just trying to make people laugh.

"I think it comes with the territory. I'm sure it does, actually. And I can't say it's water off a duck's back and I'm so thick-skinned, I can't just say that. I can say it now because I'm getting used to it, but it did come as a shock at the beginning, I can't deny that."

He added that he is grateful to his wife for keeping him "afloat".

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