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 wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

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

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

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

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.