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.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

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.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

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

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.