I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

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

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

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.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.