I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

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

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and I'm not really.

It takes me ages to write stuff.