My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.