Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.