I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

The majority of scripts I get are in the comedy genre.

We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.