It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.