Comedian

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't... You can't live your life for your routines.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I'm distinct, really.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

People aren't universally heroic.