I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

And yet, people still turn to Jesus. You will notice though that the kind of people who turn to Jesus tend to be the sort of people who haven't done that well with everybody else.

I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.