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.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

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

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.