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

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.

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

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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

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

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.