There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

I've had some offers from furries - people that want to have sex with dudes in furry suits. I've had some interesting requests. There's some great fans.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.