Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

I don't do anything for the money.

I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.

I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.