I would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of nuclear war. I was born in 1971, and in the '80s I came to understand that I was inevitably going to be frazzled to death in the nuclear apocalypse.

You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

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

Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely "a theory", albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism - although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It's also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.