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

People aren't universally heroic.

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

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

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.

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