When you're a birder, you have all sorts of reference books, and you know about migratory patterns and technical stuff. Most people just look out the window, and say 'is that a pigeon?'
I get a lot of nutters in my audiences.
I have sold stuff door-to-door, but not doors.
Comedy should be fluid. It should be both Left and Right wing.
One of the things I do really appreciate is that my audiences tend to be a wide range of ages and backgrounds, and I ascribe that to putting in the hours.
If I'm a national treasure, does that mean I'm like the Elgin Marbles and will get repatriated at some point?
The worst thing is when people try and take pictures surreptitiously. I always say, 'Look, you can ask me for a photograph. You will get a much better one than just the side of my face.' Sometimes they just run off. They can't cope.
All kinds of things have gone into my shows - cajun and rock bands, Bollywood, Kraftwerk tributes, effects and so on. As long as it services the comedy, everything is up for grabs.
I realised that the 'future' is different to how I imagined it. When I was a kid I thought it would be a bright, shiny Tomorrow's World. It isn't.
For me, audio books was about when you can't actually physically get hold of a book, like when you're driving. It's a fantastic companion on a long journey.
At school, I was bored with the teachers, and there were moments where I felt they were singling me out.
I think that generally there's a pressure to live the best life you can.
If you're going to perform, you're going to attract criticism. You can't please everyone all the time. You don't know how things are going to come out. But that's part of the fun of it, the adventure of doing any kind of art.
I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a lot, a lot of fantasy novel stuff.
I think gaming has influenced popular culture in a huge way. It's worked its way into novels, and blockbuster movies.
Films and gaming are blurring together, and it makes for brilliant popcorn entertainment.
I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such as the bazooka, the mandolin, the Theremin, the alpine horn, the didgeridoo.
The devil's in the detail and sometimes if you're thinking too big, you can miss the detail.
My grandparents would have big, long arguments that were entertaining and that's where I first noticed, and was thrilled by, political discourse.
We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.
