If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.