The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

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

Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.