When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

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.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

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.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.