I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Don't want to turn into mini-me.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.