But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

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

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