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

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

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.

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.

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