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

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

A friend of mine once said he like his women like his parmesan: strong smelling and shaved. I don't agree with that, but I don't like hairy women.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.