Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.