If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

Don't get me started on BBC salaries. We were never the big league. Situation comedy has always been the poor relation in the television entertainment business.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.

Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good space to work those things out and educate everyone about the different experiences and different race groups in South Africa.