Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

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

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

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

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

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.

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.