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.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.

That's what being nervous and sort of out of your comfort zone does. It's the same in "The Office" when a black guy comes to the office and all he thinks is `I better show this guy I'm not a racist.' So what does he do? Only talks about black issues.