You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

Subversion is what I do.

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