A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.