Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

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

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

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.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

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.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.