I guess my performance at school was doing school musicals, so I was a knight as well at the back of the stage in Camelot. It was all those kind of things. It wasn't the stuff that I wanted to do. The real funny character stuff came out when I was in control of it myself and writing it myself.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."