My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

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 always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

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 want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.