Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.