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.

As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.

Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.