Actor

I want to do a 'Facejacker' film. I want to explore the characters more, maybe do a Terry Tibbs chat show.

Comedy is in my bones.

From 'Fonejacker,' multiculturalism has been a big part of my repertoire.

I don't worry about offending people - I think most people are a lot more robust than some other people give them credit for.

I tick that cliched box of being the class clown. I've always done impressions and characters, so I'm very lucky that I get to do that as a career now.

Stanley Tucci is a classy actor, and Ian Holm is very short but equally classy - and both are also amazing.

I'm Iranian, which means I feel that I have more right to take off other races and religions, being an 'ethnic' myself. But it's a mythical character, the Fonejacker, and it's all tongue in cheek.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

Zayn is a cool name.

I enjoyed school until the age of 13 - I loved my teachers, my friends. Then, suddenly, you get thrown into a boys' school, and the ecosystem changed, and I wasn't sure where I fitted in. I was still always the clown, but I wasn't inspired, I guess.

I think it's always difficult to get a show on telly, whether you're George Clooney or just starting out. But there's room. If you're into it, chase it. You'll get it.

When I was 18 years old, I had a Saturday job working in a clothing store on London's Bond Street. I would fold T-shirts for ten hours at a time and get paid ?19 for the privilege.

Of course being in movies is very exciting, and it's a wonderful thing for an actor to do.

I was born in London. In a lot of ways I'm English, but I have this Iranianness, this culture instilled by my parents, by my family.

I was born in London! I'm as Western as you get.

I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see me on television. When I work, I'm always thinking, 'Would my mother find this funny?' The belly-laugh jokes will hit her every time.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

You don't read many positive things about Iran in the press, which is depressing, but when I go back to my grandparents' house in the hills, and I'm sitting by the pool, sipping a bootleg Turkish beer, watching a pirate DVD, eating my grandma's cooking... you realise there is a real bridge between politics and country and people.

Getting expelled from secondary school and going to a more arty-farty college gave me the incentive to perform and opened some doors.

My nickname at school was Caveman. When I tell people my name is Kayvan, some insist on going 'Caveman?'