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.

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

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

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

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?