I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode.

I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

In summary, our world is doomed.

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.