With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

People are friendlier in New York than London.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.