Dara Ó Briain on his Taylor Swift fandom & Joan Rivers

"I fucking love 'Shake It Off'," Dara Ó Briain enthuses. "It's a great track and the video's funny. She's happy to laugh at herself for being a bit dorky. She's a delight."
In an in-depth interview, our Comedian of the Year also talks about taking Stephen Hawking Christmas shopping, the return of Monty Python, Love/Hate, Robin Williams, scaremongering politicians, errant sandwich-stealing seagulls, GAA, that nice Nigel Farage and Joan Rivers.
"It's unfortunate that Joan's comments about Gaza sullied a lifetime of work," he rues. "You had a lot of people saying, 'She deserves to rot' and you think, 'OK, it was clumsy and badly done, but it doesn't change the fact that she was a hell of a comic.'"
Read the full interview in the Hot Press Annual 2015, in shops now.