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I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.