My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

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

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

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.