If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I'm not really that racist, homophobic or woman hating either, so you might not notice