I think surprises make TV entertaining.
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
I have a massive guilt thing about money.
I find teenage girls endlessly funny.
I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.
I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.
I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.
You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.
I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class at school. In Australia, a lot of students study to the end of year 10, but don't go on to the final year, and I was asked to leave the school because they just thought I wasn't performing well enough. I used to sneak off to play piano, and defy the rules of the school.
Once I got into high school, any time I had to do a talk or a speech, I just loved being up in front of an audience, it was always a character. And then I discovered that an impersonation of the teacher was a really, really good way to get a laugh, and it would also get you good marks, because the teachers were always bored and loved to be the "teacher-parody." So that became my little trick at school, and I became known for doing that.
I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.
I guess my performance at school was doing school musicals, so I was a knight as well at the back of the stage in Camelot. It was all those kind of things. It wasn't the stuff that I wanted to do. The real funny character stuff came out when I was in control of it myself and writing it myself.
When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.
People were making fun of redheads before I came along.
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
