"There’s a 'Seinfeld' episode, where he talks about why he can’t get angry, because his voice rises to a comedic pitch and no one takes him seriously - and that’s true of me, too."
"I wasn’t as cynical about Britain as a lot of friends of mine who are also people of colour."
"My parents wanted me to be a lawyer."
"I’m sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there was also the sense that this was the death of comedy. But it’s just progress."
"There’s a fear when you’re a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that."
"When you’re walking down the street and a kid shouts ‘paki’ it does start to get to you."
"During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage."
"I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We thought we had killed prejudice, and if you were still talking about it you were just going on too much."
"I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix."
"I have a strange nose: it’s big and weird."
"When I am on stage, I am often thinking about what I will eat after the show."
"Doing political comedy you do feel guilty that you aren’t trying to change problems, you are merely exploiting them for your own financial gain."
"I wish sometimes I had a passion for hats and cheese and I could do a fun show about putting hats on cheese."
"I’ve still got a bit of angst about campaigning for a particular party. I want to write jokes about whoever I want without toeing a party line."
"I don’t feel I’m in competition with anyone. My sense is of it being like school: I don’t want to beat anyone but I don’t want to get left behind. That’s a great motivator. I like impressing my friends."
"I’m in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I get drawn on the subject of race, it’s too close to home for me and I can’t articulate what I’m trying to get across."
"I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it’s because you’re forced to have a certain humility if you’re not an affluent white man."
"All comedy shows make me feel better about everything."
"Everywhere's a party with me - I'm a factory of good times."
"I once got chased off stage by a heavy-metal band."
"I'm quite good at Lego and Fifa, but they don't translate in the real world."
"Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you’d never come away from it saying she was bad."
"I’m a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I’m looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult."
"I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus, but you have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows."
"I consider it, the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me."
