The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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

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

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

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

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.