Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

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

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

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.

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

I can worry about anything.