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

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.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.