You don't read many positive things about Iran in the press, which is depressing, but when I go back to my grandparents' house in the hills, and I'm sitting by the pool, sipping a bootleg Turkish beer, watching a pirate DVD, eating my grandma's cooking... you realise there is a real bridge between politics and country and people.
The biggest mistake you can make with a prank show is remove the 'real' element, which is the funniest thing.
I think I've exhausted all my options in the U.K., unless I become a game show host.
Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.
When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.
I've got to follow in the footsteps of Sacha Baron Cohen and do a prank show, or a film with real elements to it.
My pranks have never been about getting a negative reaction. They've always been a tolerance test for the person I'm engaging with.
I met the Gallagher brothers, and Noel was quoting my 'Fonejacker' catchphrases. Hearing your heroes quote you is incredible.
I had a niche. And my niche was that I was brown. So it's like, 'Great, I get to go up for all these 'brown parts.'' I call them 'brown parts' because that's what they are. That's not to be resentful, because I loved playing those parts - I got to meet so many cool actors.
My signature dish is a khoresht fesenjan. It's a stew with pomegranate and walnuts.
There's a really geeky YouTube channel which I love. It's a guy called Oliver Harper. He makes documentaries about films. He's a real movie buff - there's loads of trivia and detail.
