But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!

I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I tend to bail out of the joke, I lose commitment in it, I'll give you an example: Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.