Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.