It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens is obviously completely different.

I definitely have friends who gave me a tag for a joke I already had. Like, 'Here's another line.' A tag is, 'Oooooh, it's an industry term.' It's like, there's the punchline, and a tag is like a secondary punchline.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

Everybody wants to be Doug Stanhope; everybody wants to be Bill Hicks - and those are great people to aim for, but they had the fundamentals down. They knew how to be funny.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as writers and comedians.

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.