I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

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

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

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.