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.

People aren't universally heroic.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

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

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

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?

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