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

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

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

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