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

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

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.

You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.

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

If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.