Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

It's always uneven, love; it's unbalanced and it's obviously even worse when it comes to someone wanting to part from someone who isn't willing to. It's often feeling hurt that you've never felt before and you want somebody else to feel that pain and also not wanting to let go, because when you let go you've got to start living your life again and it consumes people.

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

It kind of depresses me when people decide to move away. I get it, you want your kids to have somewhere to roam free or to recreate whatever your sort of childhood ideal was, but my kids are grand. I love LA because lifestyle wise, it's near the beach and mountains and it is great for kids but then it's a city built on an industry that, at the end of the day, is kind of facile.