There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.