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.
People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'
I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.
We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.