I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

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

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

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.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

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