Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.

You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, and he arrives with a sandwich! And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land"

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.