I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live.

My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

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

You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.