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" My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock. "

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" I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying. "

" We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical. "

" The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor. "

" I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror. "

" If you come away from a show thinking of an image, that's as good as remembering a joke. A lot of those shows, like 'The Office,' they are brilliant, but they're not visually interesting. "

" I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. "

" Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else. "

" I could say I'm a writer or that I'm a musician but I don't really do music; I do music to go with things I'm developing. Then I do act in a few things, but I'm not really an actor. I'm not a comedian, but I am known for comedy. I just don't know. I feel like I'm a slightly interdisciplinary jack of all trades. "

" Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it. "

" Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance. "

" The acting life can be quite scary, really. "

" I think with performing, initially I was terrified on stage, absolutely terrified. And I did it again and again and again, and I learned sort of how it works, and then I was able to do it. "

" When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters. "

" Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out. "

" When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can. "

" I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it. "

" With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way. "

" Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting. "

" I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over. "

" We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' "

" My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what I did for ages; I was in bands. And then I went to university and got into comedy somehow. "

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" I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera. "

" I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter. "

" Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things. "

" I liked horror and comedy, basically, from a young age, but I just ended up getting into comedy because there was - I could do stand-up comedy, and that was my way into this business, and then there was no stand-up horror, and I didn't know how to get into that world. "

" I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred. "

" Musicals are just funny to me. "