Schneider has also been in a number of highly successful films such as “28 Days Later”, “A Knight’s Tale” and “Mission:Impossible” and is currently appearing in a film directed by David Baddiel.

You’ve been in classic comedies – The Day Today, I’m Alan Partridge, etc – did studying Yiddish Drama help with those roles

Absolutely. All the rehearsals were conducted in Yiddish. And you’ll notice that in most of my roles I look Jewish

It’s said you have a sitcom in the works set in the office of a celebrity magazine – true? If so, when will we see it?

Wikipedia’s wonderful, isn’t it? – I directed a pilot for ITV but they didn’t go with it. But I’m not bitter. Really. No. Really.

You seem to be tweeting a lot – is it a new way to waste time, or are you the master of your twitter use?

I am Twitter’s bitch. Twitter’s gimp. I’m addicted. It’s the earning a living/eating/sleeping bit that’s the time-waster now.

Twitter.com/DavidSchneider

You are the King of Twitter – do you think Twitter is passing fad or the next step in the net revolution?

Not a passing fad, but a small hummock on the way to future peaks we can only guess at.

You are described as a comedian, author, director, actor, etc. etc. Which one is the most personally satisfying?

Writing is the most satisfying for me. Oh, and the most frustrating. But at least one is always in control. Even of the word count.

Based on your Tweets you are either working or walking – what things are you working on at the moment?

Just written a lecture. Am behind on a screenplay. QI starts next week. To Dublin tomorrow. It’s all madly busy but I like it thus.

Twitter.com/StephenFry