How important is your computer to your lifestyle? What with emails and scripts going back and forth it has become very important. I think the computer has actually made me a better writer - my emails are far more entertaining than they ever were! It's taken over from letter writing for me as I'm really into emailing and text messaging.

Mac or PC? I have both - although I think I prefer the PC <A HREF="http://www.csd.toshiba.com" TARGET="_NEW"(Toshiba Satellite because I can open attachments on it, which I can't do on my iMac! I don't use broadband yet but I should. At the moment, I still try to limit the amount of time I spend online because the phone bills are huge. Broadband seems to be the way to go.

Ever considered doing comedy exclusively for the web? Not really - I don't see the point just yet. Some comedians have really good websites. George Carlin has a lot of his routines and a daily message on his site www.georgecarlin.com, which keeps it interesting. I guess live webcasts are a possibility but you still can't beat live comedy.

Spam? I've no problem with it, really - I can always delete it! It's always nice to see your Inbox full of 50 emails - even if you have to spend 10 minutes deleting 49 of them! For that brief moment where you feel loved I can live with that!

Gadgets? I have one of the new Sony-Ericsson T68i mobiles, which is almost like a computer. Every day I find something new on it. I don't have picture messaging but it does have a sound recorder and I spend a lot of time recording silly songs or anything else that's in my brain.

Has SMS messaging been one of the big successes? Definitely. I love all the text jargon that's evolved. I also like the fact that most phones only allow you to write 160 characters per message as the whole challenge is then to say everything you want to say within that limit. That teaches you economy, which is very important in comedy. Wise people are also always more economical with their speech!

What's the best thing about the net? I'm Iranian and I have an old school friend who's Yugoslavian, so when we email each other we both try to find the most obscure reference to our past. So I searched the net to find the scorer of Yugoslavia's goal against Spain in the 1982 World Cup then sent my friend an email with "Gudelj" in the subject line. From the moment it popped into my head until I found it on the web took literally about 90 seconds. It is amazing to have that amount of information at your disposal.

Favourite sites? www.chortle.co.uk, www.chelseafc.com

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