I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.
Nobody wants to get divorced.
I slept on a friend's kitchen floor for a year and a half.
I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.
I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.
It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
I get dissatisfied really easily, and I have to constantly keep moving; I have to constantly keep doing things. I find it very hard to switch off.
Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.
More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.
Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.
Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.
Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.
Everything in politics is so stage-managed.
I adored 'Drop the Dead Donkey.' That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash.
