I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.