I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

I think it's a slightly crazy time actually, it's very difficult to satirise because each of politicians is in their own way enacting a commentary on the world of politics anyway. To then comment on them just feels like adding another layer. I find it very difficult to do jokes about current politics because for me it's all about... I actually genuinely want people to be involved properly, you know? I mean, the number of people who don't vote... Frightening, really.

What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.