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

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.

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

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

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.

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

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