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

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

People aren't universally heroic.

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

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

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.