When I Was 23 I Started Writing

Nobody Gets Irony Anymore, As We Are Now Living In The Post-ironic Age. Once George Bush Gets A Library, Our Irony Is Dead.

I Got Used To Dealing With Groups Of Boys And Getting On With Life In Unpleasant Circumstances And Being Smart And Funny And Subversive At The Expense Of Authority.

You Could Write A Joke In The Pub At Lunchtime And Watch It Performed On Television That Evening.

When We Graduated [ From Cambridge], We Were Grabbed Right Into Television. I Was Grabbed Straight Into The Practice Of Writing Comedy. It Was All Writing And Performing. You Wrote Something In Order For You To Perform It.

Everybody Has Their Own Free Choice To Do What They Want.