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

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

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

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

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.