Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.
People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
I'd say a lot of black comics were forced to do the black comedy circuit. I'd go into black comedy clubs and see what they're going through, which is different because they're almost made to be in another world.
There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
I always say to Blake Griffin that he has a better comedy career than I do.
I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.
The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.
I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. My career blossomed from there, and I became a big draw on the folk-club circuit.
I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from 'The Blues Brothers.' I'm a comic actor, but I'm an actor, too.
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis movies. I later got into watching stand-ups like Eddie Murphy, who was my main inspiration.
In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.
If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.