Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

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

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.

I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.