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Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

Prison works.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.