If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.

I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.