The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck.