Americans like workers, people who slog. I love working.
I can't play the guitar, so the thoughts of playing one onstage at a festival makes me quiver, but I've been blabbering away in front of people since I was a child, so talking for a living isn't the most daunting thing to do.
Things are only daunting if they are very far away from your main skillset.
I trained in London as a classical actor, but you've no idea what way your career will go.
No-one posts photos of themselves on Instagram when you're eating spaghetti hoops out of a tin going 'Why?'
Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.
I grew up in rural Ireland; we only had a few TV channels and had never even heard of sketch shows, but it was completely natural for me to tell jokes and stories.
I know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You've just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen.
When I'm in L.A., I'm part of the Irish community out there, and I just love it.
Some people admire the aspirational rock star figures whose biopics make it to TV, the people they watched as kids and made them want to play football for England. For some comics, it is often the Doug Stanhopes and the Joan Rivers.
My father died when I was three years old and my sister was three months.
Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.
I love Alain de Botton and listen to his little 'School of Life' YouTube vids as I do the dishes.
I love L.A. Some people arrive with big expectations and are inevitably disappointed, but I can audition in the day, which can be gruelling and lonely, but then gig and be creative in the evenings.
I am too fat and tall to be a jockey. This is not self-deprecation - I realise that I am neither too fat nor too tall - but I am too fat and too tall to be a jockey.
When I was growing up, I idolised my father. I thought his ghost followed me around the house. I had been told how he adored me, how I was funny, just like him. Because of our lovely Catholic upbringing, I secretly assumed that he would eventually come back, like our good friend Jesus.
In America, they like to think, 'Do as many things as you can.' That's what I like about being here. 'You're a polymath! We call you multi-hyphenates!' I like the idea you're allowed work as much as you can.
Put everything into it if you're asking people to part with money for it. That's the way I feel about it.
There was a stage in my career, especially with standup, where I felt, because I didn't know why I was doing well, that anyone who would tell me anything; I was sort of like, 'What did they say? Yeah, I'll take that advice.' Now I'm a bit more careful who I choose to listen to.
I buy so much stuff from charity shops.
