If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.

I don't believe that competitions are important.

If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. And our copilot today is a flask of coffee.

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.