Occupation: Comedian Birth: August 7, 1952
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs..
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres..
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git..
However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I ha….
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git..
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers..
I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck ….
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending….
But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down….
If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't..
My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Co….
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 fro….
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say '….
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city..
A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them c….
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift..
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..
People aren't universally heroic..
Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own..
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often..
I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not..