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

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

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.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.