Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

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

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

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

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.

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