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.

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.

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

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

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.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'