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

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

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.

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 think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.