It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.