Jokes in sitcoms only work when they're not conspicuous and they reveal character.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

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.

People walk past me in the street and look at me, but because they think I work in their office and they can't remember my name.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.