America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.

You know it's a sad day when your child looks at you and asks 'Daddy, are these organic?'

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!

Two young, fit, healthy attractive people in love? There’s nothing worse to look at in the world.