I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.

To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are important. Like Christmas, I like to go into a church and hear the carols sung. There's a comfort of actually going inside of a church, I find them serene. They're unchanging.