It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

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.'

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.