It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

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.

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.

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.