Your new series is about Britain's colonial history. You visit countries and then travel around in the company of local comedians. Why this approach?
Empire is a current political hot topic that people in Britain really, really want to talk about. You'll have a newspaper saying maybe empire wasn't that bad. And then a newspaper column in saying it's far worse than you imagined. But in a weird way, our experience of the British empire is that it didn't happen here. Missing from this debate are people from India, Jamaica, Australia – Indigenous Australians in particular – and South Africa, the people still dealing with the legacy of empire. The series is also a good use of comedians because we're always being told we're meant to talk about difficult things.
