Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people.

Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

The acting world is tough. It's competitive - and even more so for women - but actually, for black female actresses, the issue isn't really that it's competitive: it's that there just aren't enough roles for them in film and TV.

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal.

I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it's hard to find it funny the second time.

The one thing that I'm really obsessed with is multi-camera comedy. It is a form that is unique to network television.

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

My parents certainly didn't understand TV comedy. They wouldn't turn on 'Married... With Children' and laugh.