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.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

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.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

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.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.