I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class at school. In Australia, a lot of students study to the end of year 10, but don't go on to the final year, and I was asked to leave the school because they just thought I wasn't performing well enough. I used to sneak off to play piano, and defy the rules of the school.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

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've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.