Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

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

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

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

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

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.