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

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.'

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

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

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

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

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.