It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

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

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.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.