Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.

I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.

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.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

By any rational metric, I am boring.