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

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

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.

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.