I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.
I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.
You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.
I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.
Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.
It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.
It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.
I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.
There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
