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

People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

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