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.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

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.

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.