I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
I don't really think of myself as an actor.
I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.