People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

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

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.'

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.