If I was to get into Twitter I'd expose myself to people who adore me or people who absolutely hated me. Neither of those are useful to my soul.

Question Time' is a nice forum for reasoned political debate. There's no point having me on there trying to crack jokes.

If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.

Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.

Because I don't wear a suit, and have such a horrible boy band face, people assume that I'm not doing satirical material.

Audiences around the world are all pretty similar. People just rock up and want to have a laugh, although Americans whoop more than English crowds.

I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

There's a lot of brilliant comics who are amazing, but you can see them doing the same 20 minutes that they were doing five years ago, verbatim. I think that doesn't lend itself to progressing.

What do you know when you're 19? I was just stomping around doing gigs.

I wanna be incidental characters in 'Only Fools and Horses,' that would have been good. I wouldn't mind playing Trigger, Trigger would have been good.

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

It's just a joy travelling with your job. You get to wander around these interesting cities and then things happen or you observe things and you go on stage at the end of the night and chat about it.

Sometimes improv doesn't work on TV because the audience had heard the thing that was shouted and they're very much alive, the audience in the room - they're alive in that moment. Whereas the audience sat at home on the sofa, it feels like it's part of a party that they haven't been invited to.

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

The Edinburgh Fringe is a tough beast and you do whatever you can to get through it. But it's really the worst place to see comedians; everyone is so tense and nervous because it feels like Ofsted inspectors are out there.

I'd been writing jokes since I was 16, not very good ones though, but I was always trying to make my mates laugh.

I find it really weird, when I'm shopping in Tesco, the amount of times I have people like: 'What you doing in here? You're famous!'

Doing the O2 Arena in London in 2011 was pretty awesome.

If you want any attention in the Howard household, you have to shout quite loudly and try to develop a personality.

I just don't care what people like Lily Allen think about stuff.

Mumbai was magical, which I was really surprised by, and I got an insight into the world of Bollywood while hanging out with some Bollywood film stars while there.

Los Angeles feels empty and overrated. I struggle with it as a holiday destination. It's the sort of place where you need to know some locals, otherwise it just feels so empty.

I love Dublin and the locals are extraordinary.

I'm a bit of a Luddite.