My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

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

I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.