I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.

As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a "giant pattern detector." If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more likely to give it credence, while the opposite is not true.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.