Alan Davies: ‘I get called Jonathan Creek all the time – nowadays people think I’m James May’

‘Once, when I was a teenager, someone – very generously – compared me to James Dean’ … comedian Alan Davies. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

In your first memoir, My Favourite People and Me, you picked Kylie Minogue as one of your favourite people – but added that you stopped loving her when I Should Be So Lucky came out. To make this a question: how dare you?

Ah, Kylie. She’s completely adored everywhere she goes, and I adore her as well. I fell for her when she was Charlene in Neighbours – I was a student studying drama in the 80s and the only drama that any of us cared about was Neighbours. Australian girls were the pin-ups for everybody in England.