People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
I always thought communism was crap, really.
You can't do comedy with a beard.
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
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.
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.
It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.
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.
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
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.
It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.
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