There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

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.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

By any rational metric, I am boring.

Do you know how hard it is to kill 30 million people? It's a logistical nightmare.