I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity.

Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette."

Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry.

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.