I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot.

London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.