I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.