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I've always felt, and I think I've been pigeonholed by the media, as being a very separate voice to the rest of comedy.

Not the Nine O'Clock News' was the first comedy show I truly responded to when I was a teenager. I watched it avidly not just for pleasure but also for kudos.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'

I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

Comedy has been so good to me.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

My comedy routines have always been about the health of the nation.

I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.

It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.

Science is a hobby, and I'm really into it, but it's not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make people laugh. Science, for me, is probably a bit like Danny Baker's love of football or Rod Stewart's obsession with train sets.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.