I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill.

We have archeology on television, and I quite like it; it’s a sort of detective thing, but it’s really true, you know it’s there… But it’s kind of slow on telly, it has this problem of, “We’ve been here three weeks on live television, and we’ve taken off about a millimeter of top soil so far…” There’s men with brushes and beards… maybe they’ve just got beards, I’m not sure… “We found this and carbon-dated it to last Tuesday, so we’re very excited…”