People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

